Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.