"…But Millie, Millie, we must remember art. Dostoievsky, Gorki, for Russia, and now America wants an Eastern-European. America is tired of Browns and Smiths. The Browns and the Smiths are good writers but there are too many of them and they all write alike. America wants the fuzzy blackness, impractical meditations and repressed desires of an Eastern-European."

From Charles Bukowski’s first published story, “Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip.”

Upon receiving the print version of the publication, the March-April 1944 issue of Story, he discovered that “Aftermath” had been printed in the end-notes. He wouldn’t begin writing for publication again for another six years.

Ah, yes … I always forget how to do this one.

Yup. (Too Much Coffee Man, via travors)

Internet, meet my mom.

katehallettdayton:

Family sailing trip, September, 2008.

My love of sailing crosses the waters of photography and writing. They mingle with gardening and knitting during the off-season to make art.

"The only happiness you have is writing something new, in the middle of the night, armpits damp, heart pounding, something no one has yet seen. You have only those brief, fragile, untested moments of exhilaration when you know: you are a genius."

lorrie moore, how to become a writer. (via meaghano)