I was attracted to this Hunter S. Thompson quote when I read it whilst in the states.
As long as the constant speedy lure of… < insert current proffesion > … seemed more essential and important to me than the ugly, slow-burning reality of writing a novel, any effort to write fiction would have been a part-time, left-handed gig… And in any other line of work except writing, people who try to deal with the world and life and reality off a split focus base are called “schizoid” and are taken off the streets, as it were, for their own and the greater good.
It agrees with and sums up where my head is at. How much is the rent on that little house at the end of Vladimir Illyich Illyanov Street in Archangel.
