When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work when he didn’t drink, then he drank himself to death and blew his head off with a shotgun. Someone asked John Cheever, “What’d you learn from Hemingway?” and he said “I learned not to blow my head off with a shotgun.” I remember going to the Michigan poetry festival, meeting Etheridge Knight there and Robert Creeley. Creeley was so drunk—he was reading and he only had one eye, of course, and had to hold his book like two inches from his face using his one good eye. But you look at somebody like George Saunders—I think he’s the best short story writer in English alive—that’s somebody who tries very hard to live a sane, alert life.

You’re present when you’re not drinking a fifth of Jack Daniel’s every day. It’s probably better for your writing career, you know? I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist.

In an interview with The Fix, Mary Karr debunks the toxic mythology that it is necessary to be damaged in order to be creative. My own vehement defiance to that mythology is what led me to choose Ray Bradbury – the ultimate epitome of creating from joy rather than suffering – as the subject of my contribution to The New York Times’ The Lives They Lived.

Pair with Karr on why writers write.

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In an I’mlonelymiserablehatemyselfthinkingabouteverythingI’vedonewrongguiltriddenangryanddisgustedatselfwannacurlupinaholeanddie kinda mood

BUT HEY, lot’s of work getting done on the game today!

OH NO, IT’S THE “YOU AND I ARE JUST ALIKE” KIND OF BADTOUCH DETECTIVE/KILLER GAY SUBTEXT

IT’S EVERYTHING I WANT AND NEED

HELP, GET ME OUT OF HERE, IT’S TOO MUCH PERFECTION AND THERE’S NO TURNING BACK

Oh my god, this show is so homoerotic

First thoughts and stuff.

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Jesus christ, I need to sleep.

At least I ate curry.

For my birthday, all I want is this cake but with Agent Cooper instead and drawn in the exact same quality with the French and pink and same pose:

I’m not even attracted to him, that’s just what I want

That’s all I want