“The Russian-born novelist's writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first drafts in pencil on ruled index cards, which… — 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.… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“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… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“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
