--SOMETIMES
I LIE WHEN THE TRUTH WOULD SERVE ME BETTER
…There’s
a very large corkboard in my office with various portraits (mostly black and
whites) pinned to it. They’re tears from
magazines and are the physical embodiments of characters from my last novel.
It’s
time to take them down. I’ve been living
with them for the last two years. I’m
sad to see them go, but I’ve got new ones.
…I
had a few stories published in this really racy site:
…And
I had these things published as well:
…Here
are some things I like to start a new week:
“We
are being buried beneath a weight of information that is being confused with
knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.”
Tom Waitts
“We
have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read them stories we are already tired
of. To do the voices, to make it
interesting and not stop reading and not stop reading to them simply because
they can learn to do it themselves.” Neil Gaiman
“You
think that your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the
world, but then you read. It was books
that taught me the things that the things that tormented me most were the
things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever
been alive.” James Baldwin
“I don’t know I’d describe what I’m doing leading up
to that song as ‘research’,” she says. “For me, it’s more having a hunch and
following through on the hunch. Having an almost religious faith in the fact
that certain things are connected and I have to lasso them all into the same
place. Research: that word feels so cold to me in a way. Because it’s all very
compulsive and very emotion-driven.” Joanna Newsome
“There
are no perfect writers, just like there is no perfect despair.” Haruki
Maurakama
Per aspera ad astra – a rough road leads to the stars.
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