Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'Macbeth' is an amazing story.
The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.
I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.
I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.