“When I sit down to write I never brood. I have so many other things to do, with my children and teaching, that I can’t afford it. I brood, thinking of ideas, in the automobile when I’m driving to work… — 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 Image
“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. he rose and sat down at his writing table for a seven-hour stretch of work. At 8:00 A.M. he allowed himself a ninety-minute nap; then, from 9:30 to 4:00, he resumed work, drinking cup after cup… — Mason Currey Copy Share
“If you have to discipline yourself to achieve art, you discipline yourself.” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“Inspiration is for amateurs,” Close says. “The rest of us just show up and get to work.” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Bourgeois told another interviewer: “I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“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 human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the… — 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 Image
“eggs, vegetables, cheese or fruit, and a cup of cold chocolate. Then” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“[T]he two things, life style and work, have become one. Now if that’s eccentricity, then I’m eccentric.” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“My life has been regulated by insomnia,” Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993.” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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