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What kind of play has our life been, in service to what, or to whom? Do we like what we see, if we look honestly, and whose fault it is then? If we do not like what we see, then we are obliged to construct a fiction more worthy of service. If we are stuck, and know we are stuck, and we always do, then is there not some deep imperative to get unstuck? And is not the assumption of this responsibility for finding the right fiction to serve what we mean by “becoming something when we grow up”? ~ Creating a Life, p. 53
The Best of James Hollis
Logan Jones
He frequently took me to task when it came to my working methods, insisting it was all becoming stale (“When will the book be ready? Do the five-day version. It needs life! Leave the gaps in it, leave it porous. Shake the structure out and write it. Let’s get the motherfucker over and done with”) and accusing me of being an “endless fiddler” (guilty as charged). The line from Preston Sturges’s Unfaithfully Yours was written about him: “If you ever want anything done, always ask the busy man. The others never have time.”
Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed
Paul Cronin
We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. Louise Glück, “Nostos”
The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr
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