Time Quote by Mason Currey

“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

“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

“If you have to discipline yourself to achieve art, you discipline yourself.”

— Mason Currey

“Inspiration is for amateurs,” Close says. “The rest of us just show up and get to work.”

— Mason Currey

“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

“Bourgeois told another interviewer: “I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.”

— Mason Currey

“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

“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

“eggs, vegetables, cheese or fruit, and a cup of cold chocolate. Then”

— Mason Currey

“[T]he two things, life style and work, have become one. Now if that’s eccentricity, then I’m eccentric.”

— Mason Currey

“My life has been regulated by insomnia,” Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993.”

— Mason Currey

“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