Sunday, November 30, 2008

Distilled Failures

"If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies."

- John Dos Passos

"I write a lot- every day, seven days a week- and I throw a lot away. Sometimes I think I write to throw away; it's a process of distillation."

- Donald Barthelme

"The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them."

- Raymond Chandler

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