“The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. There is no more miserable… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.” — Mason Currey Copy Share
“When Balzac was working, his writing schedule was brutal: He ate a light dinner at 6:00 P.M., then went to bed. At 1:00 A.M.… — Mason Currey Copy Share
“If you have to discipline yourself to achieve art, you discipline yourself.” — Mason Currey Copy Share
“Inspiration is for amateurs,” Close says. “The rest of us just show up and get to work.” — Mason Currey Copy Share
“When I sit down to write I never brood. I have so many other things to do, with my children and teaching, that I… — Mason Currey Copy Share
“Bourgeois told another interviewer: “I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.” — Mason Currey Copy Share
“The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers… — Mason Currey Copy Share
“There was the presence only of essentials. It was an uncluttered kind of life, a simplicity deliberately constructed so that she could do her… — Mason Currey Copy Share
“[T]he two things, life style and work, have become one. Now if that’s eccentricity, then I’m eccentric.” — Mason Currey Copy Share
“My life has been regulated by insomnia,” Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993.” — Mason Currey Copy Share
“My concern at times is nothing more than establishing a series of practical considerations that will enable me to work. For years I said… — Mason Currey Copy Share
“The trick is to make time—not steal it—and produce the fiction. If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track.… — Mason Currey Copy Share
“The Russian-born novelist's writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first drafts in pencil on ruled index cards, which he stored… — Mason Currey Copy Share
“A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one’s mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods.” — Mason Currey Copy Share
