television's angry young man died early

routine

"I will do nothing for months. Then the night before it's due, I will sit up and crank out 50 pages."
- Billy Bob Thornton [born 1955]

most famous yet unknown writer

 

Writer of "Fight Club" talks bullies

He notes that it's about humiliation and mainly making up for classroom learning difficulties. And that beauty as a child can be a liability as it makes one a target. 

 

19th century cruise

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

Mark Twain [1835-1910] wrote "Innocents Abroad" about his trip to as far as Palestine, which launched his career.

moving feast

 

Hemingway [1899-1961] liked more than anything to be a foreigner.

southern gothic

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
- Flannery O'Connor

quill

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

- Joan Didion

abracadabra

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
- Joan Didion

on writing

"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."
- Blaise Pascal

if it isn't nourished

"We will lose writing as an art form in our lives."
- Ed Asner

considerate

"I'll write slow because I know you can't read real fast."
- Radar in a letter to his mother

natural process of evolution

"There's no such thing as a mistake. A mistake is an opportunity to do something else."
- Ralph Steadman

far from the madness

“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

on songwriting

"I'm picking things up as I walk down the street."
- Lori McKenna

uuuuge

Ghost writers command 30% of all future revenues.

law and legend

"The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power."
- Simon Schama

where Churchill wrote his memoirs

- Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo

cousin

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
- Benjamin Franklin

dull

"I drink to make other people more interesting."
- Variously attributed