
On The Rules of Attraction
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On The Rules of Attraction
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“Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.”
Source: The Prince of Tides, character Henry Wingo, chapter 2, page 53 (e-book edition)
Some Reasons Why (1881)
Context: Suppose then, that I do read this Bible honestly, fairly, and when I get through I am compelled to say, “The book is not true.” If this is the honest result, then you are compelled to say, either that God has made no revelation to me, or that the revelation that it is not true, is the revelation made to me, and by which I am bound. If the book and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree? Either God should have written a book to fit my brain, or should have made my brain to fit his book.
“If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.”
Source: Match Me If You Can
Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
“…Free my hands and I'll varnish this floor with your brains!”
"The Scarlet Citadel" (1933)
“I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.”
Gigaplex's interview, 1995
Mis culpas no irán a otras manos por mi culpa. No quiero otra culpa en mis manos.
Voces (1943)
Iwona Siwek-Front, painter, friend of Vetulani in an interview Artystka, to jak glebogryzarka http://www.bloge12.pl/artystka-to-jak-glebogryzarka/ (in Polish), Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury, 2014.
On how writers should avoid analyzing their own work in “Donna Tartt on The Goldfinch, Inspiration, and the Perils of Literary Fame” https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a29022016/donna-tartt-goldfinch-interview/ in Town & Country (2019 Sep 12)