"Writers can only break the rules afer they've mastered them. I'd be surprised if you didn't break the rules."
- A creative writing professor at NYU. I don't know if this was her intention, but when I'm manic and writing a million words per minute, I remember this moment and feel like God.
- A creative writing professor at NYU. I don't know if this was her intention, but when I'm manic and writing a million words per minute, I remember this moment and feel like God.
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"[A]nyone who is doing something creative, they're always chasing something. And a lot of the time you're not even sure what it is you're chasing."
- A.C. Newman of The New Pornographers
My newfound calm is derived from the feeling that I no longer have to chase anything as passionately as I once did. Instead of an impending sense of doom, I now feel confident that everything I want will happen.
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"I hate that I think so highly of you. Sometimes I'll act a certain way and do things for a long stretch of time, then realize it's because of your influence, and I can't tell if I'm me or an extension of you."
"Everyone's an extension of me and I'm an extension of everyone. That's what good artists can do: expess themselves in such a way that practically everyone relates and everyone's actions are tainted by the whim of the artist - whether directly, inversely, or indirectly. The artist's eyes are the lenses with which we see ourselves."
"That's-That's-That's... True. Fuck."
- Sydney Jo and Me, on the subway this morning (Dec. 13, 2007). Quintessential manic conversation, after a sleepless night spent writing my latest novel, planning my left-brained life, philosophizing with Rob over the merits of the TV show Journeyman.
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Thanks for writing this.
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