"Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Jobs Quotes #Writing Quotes #Dust Quotes

“I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.”
“There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.”
“Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush.”
“When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!”
“I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.”
“Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.”
“There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.”
“Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead”

Source : Song: The Golden Age, Album: Sea Change, 2002

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