“You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.” ThinkingWritingLongBookDreamRealizingSleepKnowingGrowingAnxietyWake UpInventionNervousEtcNervesPerpetualNot KnowingStemStrainFinishing Book:Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954 Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954
“So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.” LongFashionHumourRangeMuseStrain Author:Michael Drayton