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Karaoke last night was ok. I still feel the cough at times, and it doesn't make me want to practice singing so much. Anyway I woke up disgustingly early because I had to go to the bathroom. Tricky to get back to sleep after that. But finally I did. When I woke up again I still felt shitty, so I just watched the director commentary on American Pie. Not because it was insightful or anything, but because in the GQ I read yesterday, the Weitz brothers were in a photo shoot. And one of them is fairly cute, and also did About A Boy, which is a great film. I may just have to buy it today.
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Great quote on writing:
"Reading [my own writing] does not mean anything to me... what matters to me is the writing, the act of manufacturing the novel, becuase while I am doing it, at that particular moment, I am in the world I'm writing about. It is real to me, compeltely and utterly. Then, when I'm finished, and have to stop, withdraw from that world forever - that destroys me. The men and women have ceased talking. They no longer move... My friends are dead."
-- PKD.
Now I've only written one novel, but I know exactly what he means. Even stories sometimes do that.
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Great quote on writing:
"Reading [my own writing] does not mean anything to me... what matters to me is the writing, the act of manufacturing the novel, becuase while I am doing it, at that particular moment, I am in the world I'm writing about. It is real to me, compeltely and utterly. Then, when I'm finished, and have to stop, withdraw from that world forever - that destroys me. The men and women have ceased talking. They no longer move... My friends are dead."
-- PKD.
Now I've only written one novel, but I know exactly what he means. Even stories sometimes do that.