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Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

“You forget everything, you are almost insane, everything inside you trembles and writhes, you scarcely manage to set down sketches, one idea presses upon another.”

“great is the satisfaction thereof”

Day 41: Francine Prose. "I sneak away to the country and work on a computer that’s not connected to the Internet and count on the world to go away long enough for me to get a few words down on paper, whenever and however I can. When the writing is going well, I can work all day. When it’s not, I spend a lot of time gardening and standing in front of the refrigerator."

Day 40: Chuck Close. “Inspiration is for
amateurs,” Close says. “The rest of us just show up and get to work.”

Franz Liszt

“ A younger colleague once asked Liszt why he didn’t keep a diary. “To live one’s life is hard enough,” he replied. “Why write down all the misery? It would resemble nothing more than the inventory of a torture chamber.”

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Friedrich Schiller

“ We have failed to recognize our great asset: time. A conscientious use of it could make us into something quite amazing.”

Кинг сравнява писането на проза с "творчески сън", а режима си на писане с приготвяне за лягане всяка вечер.

Day 39: Joyce Carol Oates. “I write and write and write, and rewrite, and even if I retain only a single page from a full day’s work, it is a single page, and these pages add up,” she told one interviewer. “As a result I have acquired the reputation over the years of being prolix when in fact I am measured against people who simply don’t work as hard or as long.”

William Styron

“ I have had in my little study in Connecticut all these years that famous line from Flaubert tacked to my wall: “Be regular and orderly in your life like a Bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.” I believe it.”

Day 38: Toni Morrison. For most of her writing career, she had a full-time job and was a single parent to two sons. How, then, she managed to deliver as she did is a mystery. She illuminates saying that her writing hours (rare as they were, in a given day) were concentrated, and she never (could afford to) brooded during those hours. Imagine, then, what we can accomplish, with all the time we waste on an average day.

I have this next to my nightstand table and am reading a little bit (almost) every night as I go,