When we build, let us think that we build forever.
— John Ruskin (via justinchildress)
Ernest Alexander Journal: Man of the Hour | Sean Hotchkiss
If you’ve ever perused the world of GQ (or just obsess with it like we do), then chances are you’ve spent some time on the GQ Eye - the online blog for Gentlemen’s Quarterly. As we’re quickly learning, creating content for blogs is significantly more complicated than just finding things and…
Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing to do is shovel shit from a sitting position.
—
Stephen King
This is particularly relevant Sitz Im Leben.
We’ve looked and looked, but after all where are we?
— Robert Frost
You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You’ve been backstage. You’ve seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a romantic relationship, unless you want to break up.
— Margaret Atwood
