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“We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.”
― Sam Lipsyte, The Ask

“One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy. Your parents want you to have health insurance. Your friends want you to be a good friend. But everyone’s thinking about their own problems and nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, ‘Boy, I sure hope Sam finishes that chapter and gets one step closer to his dream of being a working writer.’ Nobody does that. If you want to write, it has to come from you. If you don’t want to write, that’s great. Go do something else. That was a very liberating moment for me.”
― Sam Lipsyte

“Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”
― Isak Dinesen

“Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables