It's so important what you're ...

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.
 John Maus

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I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.
 John Maus
Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.
 John Maus