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I am riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains of the nation.
Hurtling across the prairie into blue haze and dark air go fifteen all-steel coaches holding a thousand people.
(All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men and women laughing in the diners and sleepers shall pass to ashes.)
I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he answers: “Omaha.”
From Chicago Poems (1916)
After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.
From BillMoyers.com
Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
Leon Uris
In June 1945, Dorothy Parker telegrams her editor to inform him she has writer’s block:
Via Letters of Note.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton
New York City, 1950. Photo by Elliott Erwitt. Buy it here.