“For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.” WritingFirstsHomeHoursMorningFirst TimeGet UpNovelistsComing HomeBreakfast Author:Ridley Pearson
“This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.” FirstsMaySoulEndsBodyMy OwnKnownMorningMastersFirst TimeFaithfulBeastCompanionSlyDevouring Book:Memoirs of Hadrian Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.” FirstsHeartLongJoyMorningMy HeartLong TimeFirst TimeKnivesTwisted Book:1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh Source: 1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh
“I sometimes suffer from insomnia and one of the first times it ever happened I was like, "I don't know what to do with myself," so I started writing a song and by morning it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.” KnowsWritingFirstsSometimesSufferingSongSleepMorningHappenedFirst TimeFinishedInsomnia Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner