Reuben, Reuben Quotes

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

“Write drunk; edit sober.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

“He had read most of the literature on the psychopathology of sloth, including an analysis of Doctor Johnson, without being convinced that anybody really knew very much about it. But its victims know it to be a curse and a cross. “I wish I’d get up. I wish I’d go there or do that. Oh, how I want to want to!” Oh, the first discovery that one is to be henceforth the tormented fulcrum of apathy and aspiration.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben