It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.
Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.
[Osip] Mandelstam was killed by Stalinist forces.
Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.