The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
- Barbara Kingsolver
(The author of The Poisonwood Bible)
I have learned, long ago, that I can organize my office and my calendar and my junk drawer, but my writing…it resists. Art requires a bit of chaos. Thrives on it, even. The best approach, at least in my experience, is to get in order what you can and just let the rest ride. Somehow, between the two, you’ll get the story you want to tell.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
In my world, the books would be nothing but pictures.
Alice (Alice in Wonderland)
you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgot to get old.
Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell (via
paris87)