Jim Krusoe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Itâ€™s all risk. And if it isnâ€™t, it needs to be. The real trick is to find the risk that is right for you, a risk that doesnâ€™t take you so far out of your own identity that itâ€™s not a you that you recognize whoâ€™s doing the writing.
-- Jim Krusoe

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To Americans Boris Vian has long been one of the hidden glories of French literature. In I Spit on Your Graves, he wrote an utterly untypical work, a blast from his Id that may well have killed him. Even now, with misogyny disguised as racial justice, its venom remains potent and disturbing, in equal parts appalling and riveting. It is a singular book, not for the squeamish, and not to be passed by.
-- Jim Krusoe

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FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then begins, little by little, to bleed real blood until, in the end, the blood turns out to be our own. I read it nearly thirty years ago in its previous incarnation as Mood Indigo and I loved it then; it's still one of my favorite books in the whole world
-- Jim Krusoe

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It’s all risk. And if it isn’t, it needs to be. The real trick is to find the risk that is right for you, a risk that doesn’t take you so far out of your own identity that it’s not a you that you recognize who’s doing the writing.
-- Jim Krusoe

#Real #Writing #Risk

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.
People need to learn to live with more risk.

Jim Krusoe famous quotes

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