On writing

“After writing and recording an album, I allow myself a large and ever-increasingly long exhale. But leading up to the process, I tend to get consumed by a theme that carries me through to the writing - I know when it’s happening now because it feels like picking up breadcrumbs; one book leads to another, or I feel called to travel or learn somethi

“I’ve never done morning pages, or speedily written a shitty first draft. I edit my sentences as I write them, like a coward!”
— Haley Nahman, Beyond routines

“The best songs are written against your will - with minimal intervention, because you happened to have one hand up in the air while the other touched the ground and were alive with desire.” — Laura Marling

Peanut Butter

By Eileen Myles

I am always hungry

& wanting to have

sex. This is a fact.

If you get right

down to it the new

unprocessed peanut

butter is no damn

good & you should

buy it in a jar as

always in the

largest supermarket

you know. And

I am an enemy

of change, as

you know. All

the things I

embrace as new

are in

fact old things,

re-released: swimming,

t

Every time I cut something, I'll never delete it. I just copy and paste it under a line at the bottom of the document. That's how I know I'm making progress – the graveyard gets larger and larger and the only things that are left alive are the things I didn't think I should kill.

— Adam Mastroianni

"Not all writing is worth reading. Just because someone can put words on a page doesn’t mean they are worth reading or add value."

— Schopenhauer’s Strategy Against Clickbait

“I don’t love writing; I love having a problem I believe I might someday write my way out of.”
— Sarah Manguso 300 arguments via Sari