“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary
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“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
“Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart....”
“Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.”
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