- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
- Submissive to everything, open, listening
- Try never get drunk outside yr own house
- Be in love with yr life
- Something that you feel will find its own form
- Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
- Blow as deep as you want to blow
- Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
- The unspeakable visions of the individual
- No time for poetry but exactly what is
- Visionary tics shivering in the chest
- In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
- Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
- Like Proust be an old teahead of time
- Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
- The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
- Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
- Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
- Accept loss forever
- Believe in the holy contour of life
- Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
- Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
- Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
- No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
- Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
- Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
- In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
- Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
- You’re a Genius all the time
- Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven”
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Five Resolutions for 2009
- Maintain self-maintenance
- Be Kind
- Simplify
- Make more stuff
- Integrate
How To Write a Movie
1. Write a play instead
2. Do the title first
3. Read it to people
4. Forget the three-act structure
6. Don’t write excuse notes
7. Avoid the German funk trap
8. Do a favourite bit
9. Cast it in your head
10. Learn to love rewrites
11. Don’t wait for inspiration
12. Celebrate your invisibility
13. Read, read, read, read, read
“An impression—city in peril—dead city—equestrian statue—men in closed room—clattering of hooves heard from outside—marvel disclosed on looking out—doubtful ending”
- Demophon shivered when the sun shone upon him. (Lover of darkness = ignorance.)
- Inhabitants of Zinge, over whom the star Canopus rises every night, are always gay and without sorrow. [x]
- The shores of Attica respond in song to the waves of the Aegean. [x]
- Horror Story
Man dreams of falling—found on floor mangled as tho’ from falling from a vast height. [x]- Narrator walks along unfamiliar country road,—comes to strange region of the unreal.
- In Ld Dunsany’s “Idle Days on the Yann”
The inhabitants of the antient Astahan, on the Yann, do all things according to antient ceremony. Nothing new is found.- “Here we have fetter’d and manacled Time, who wou’d otherwise slay the Gods.” [x] Horror Story
The sculptured hand—or other artificial hand—which strangles its creator. [x]- Hor. Sto.
Man makes appt. with old enemy. Dies—body keeps appt.- Dr. Eben Spencer plot. [x]
- Dream of flying over city. [Celephaïs]
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