A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a happy bunch of chuckleheads.
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
