Quote of the Day

The trouble with most who would write poetry is that they are unwilling to throw their lives away.

—Russell Edson, “Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man”

Quote of the Day

Is the typewriter not like the console of some giant musical instrument designed to ruin one’s head?

—Russell Edson, “Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man”

Quote of the Day

Any way of writing that isolates the writer from worldly acceptance offers the greatest creative efficiency. Isolation from other writers, and isolation from easy publishing. This gives one the terrible privacy so hard to bear, but necessary to get past the idea one has of oneself in relation to the world.

—Russell Edson, “Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man”