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Quotes Part 23
‘Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.’ – William Wordsworth ‘Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.’ -Monica Ali ‘Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.’ – William Saroyan ‘Anyone could write a novel, given six weeks, pen, paper, and no telephone or wife.’ – Evelyn Waugh ‘The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to…
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Quotes Part 22
“There was a girl, and her uncle sold her. Put like that it seems so simple. No man, proclaimed Donne, is an island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other’s tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived and then by some means or other, died. there. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any…
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Quotes Part 21
“…So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, just, but you are there like a ghost, a will o’ the wisp. Not long ago you burned–your heart burned–in my mind like silver fire. But after that night in the inn it became patchy and dim, and now it is not there at all.” “Could it be that the heart that you seek is no longer my own? …I have given my heart to another.” “The boy? The one in the inn? With the unicorn?” “Yes.” “You should have let me take it back then,…