14 quotes found
Writer · American · 1954
American writer (born 1954)
“My ambition was to live like music.”
“It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.”
“Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a ...”
“Dani said this woman, with whom shed lived for two years, had never known her. I feel like people accept the first thing I show them, she said, and thats all I ever am to them.”
“If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-for...”
“I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for...”
“The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with ...”
“Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.”
“A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences ...”
“The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing ...”
“Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife...”
“Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelingsit does this in a very beautiful, fluid way. To me the issue of form and formlessness is most strong in th...”
“Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thing I show them,” she said, “and that’s all I ever am to them.”
