“Here’s how surprise works. While holding my attention, you withold basic plot information. Feed it to me little by little. Make me try and figure out what’s going on. Tease me in one direction. Throw in a false ending. Then turn it around and flip me over.” — Brian Brushwood - Bizarre Magic: America’s #1 College Magic Show - News - 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
“Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it’s there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.” — Brian Brushwood - Bizarre Magic: America’s #1 College Magic Show - News - 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
“COMMANDMENTS Work on one thing at a time until finished. Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.” Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time! When you can’t create you can work. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it. Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only. Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.” — Lists of Note: Henry Miller’s 11 Commandments
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“When people say “irrespective” - It’s so fucking hot and grammatically correct! Absolutely titillating!” — woolgathering & miscellany: Good littles
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