March 2009
26 posts
1 tag
it was like real rock n roll. i’ve been thinking a lot about all my pasts. you haunt them like a ghost, but you’re not dead, but are you really alive once someone forgets you? you are dead to me, not cruelly, it’s just been almost four years since i thought about you in any kind of functional way and i wonder at my skin for being so soft because i’d like it to be a visible...
“It reminds me of COLLEGE. You know, in the 90s, when we were all wearing shorts...”
– gofugyourself.celebuzz.com
I’m not sure why I feel the need to give myself an escape hatch out of everything.
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via bestpicture1977)
“Those sleeves are majestic. They look like a video game — a beautiful,...”
– gofugyourself.celebuzz.com
seriously, though, would that not be an AWESOME video game?
excited! excited! SWINTON FTW. →
“In practice, I’m somewhere between neatness and total mess, with an...”
– Graham Swift
I AM INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH THIS SYSTEM.
it actually really freaked my aunt out when she came to visit recently—she was trying to help me find an important piece of paper to take home with her, and i could tell her exactly what every stack was and how the paper wasn’t...
“I can’t always find the DVD or CD I’m looking for, and many of my...”
– Russell Hoban
i like writers who like clutter. it makes me feel better about my own mess.
“It’s all about books, really, and where to put them. Writers need to be...”
– Simon Armitage.
THIS IS WHAT I KEEP TELLING YOU PEOPLE ABOUT MY BIZARRE SPECIFICATIONS FOR MY LIVING SPACE.
“I’m trying to write the second draft but it hasn’t warmed up yet;...”
– Deborah Moggach shares my current writer’s block problem.
“Some preliminaries happen at the huge notice board in the kitchen, where I am...”
– Hilary Mantel.
i wish that i could be this organized about writing.
I HAVE TO START WRITING VALID WORK AGAIN.
no srsly. for my own personal well-being.
“Afterwards, I like to eat alone in restaurants - that way you think about the...”
– David Hare on writing plays.
“I don’t mind working in a bit of clutter. It’s your head that has to...”
– Further, Beryl Bainbridge explains my feelings towards these stray book piles.
“The books are there because there’s no other place to put them I...”
– Beryl Bainbridge inadvertently describes my primary organizing dilemma. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/jan/12/writers.rooms.beryl.bainbridge
“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don’t know whether...”
– David Brent- The Office (British).
dear maggie, we can go in on it together, yes? →
