“Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.” KnowsRunningEffortCreativityMaterialsDrugFinalsTerrorSensesForestsFinishingBoundlessHesitationReluctanceHumdrum Author:Caitlin Thomas
“none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.” KnowsBookPainLearningTearsElementsTouchingToysNailsMobileDrumsticks Author:Caitlin Thomas
