Fragments of Rasmenia Massoud: American expat somewhere in France, author of HUMAN DETRITUS & complete jackass.
www.rasmenia.com
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I’m always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.
— Flannery O’Connor
Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
— Nick Hornby (via fuckyeahwritersquotesandwisdom)
(via moonlight-driive)
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
John Fante
Aspiring my ass. You write or you don’t. The curse of this profession is that it’s so much more fun being a writer than it is writing.
— Gary Brandner
If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you? It’ll still be happening to an unchanged person.
— Douglas Coupland
Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment—the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.
— ― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
Why do we argue? Life’s so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
— Alan Moore, Watchmen
