"I wrote in the mornings, often in cafes, on the way to the office. I gave myself a daily word minimum, usually 750. I tried to save revision for the weekends, when I had more consecutive hours to string together."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Christopher Castellani

#Morning Quotes #Weekend Quotes #Office Quotes

“Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2013). “A Stone Boat: A Novel”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
“Is this the reality you wanted?!”
“Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past”
“It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.”
“My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.”
“Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.”
“I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.”
“Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.”

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