Afternoon Hours of a Hermit Quotes

“Perhaps part of the problem was I had surrounded myself with the fiction writers instead of the poets. I had chosen the wrong world to immerse myself in; the poets were nightclub docents of mourning and melancholia and the fiction writers were real estate agents.”
― Patrick Cottrell, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit

“To write was to go back and to move forward.”
― Patrick Cottrell, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit

“One day a very tall woman with excellent posture came into the store. She asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I said I want to go to as many Fiona Apple concerts as possible, I wanted to follow Fiona Apple around on tour.”
― Patrick Cottrell, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit

“I preferred to align with the ones who believe writing is like standing on one side of an ancient forest and on the other side is everyone you've ever known, the living, the dead, waiting to say things to you.”
― Patrick Cottrell, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit

“During difficult times, that's what we turn to. We'll always have ice cream and chocolate fountains, she said in a deeply philosophical way.”
― Patrick Cottrell, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit

“How could a person write five hundred pages of this banal vulgarity and I could hardly get to one hundred pages about my little bumblebee pooping on the rug?”
― Patrick Cottrell, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit

“I don't know how we can be sure what we are to anyone, I remembered thinking, even if we ask them directly, there's no way to know.”
― Patrick Cottrell, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit