There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.
David HewsonAfter which, he visited the wife of that fool Wallace and spent midnight till dawn bouncing her from one end of the mattress to the other.
David HewsonWe spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place?
David HewsonYou speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.
David HewsonMots clés life self good-and-evil
A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.
David HewsonMots clés humor nationalism sex taming
It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.
David HewsonMots clés humor traveling traveling-alone
The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.
David HewsonMots clés sex fidelity infidelity cheating
I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.'
Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything.
Mots clés doing actions-over-words
And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut?
David HewsonMots clés woman feminism destiny sexual-objectification
There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.
David HewsonMots clés truth lies lying-to-ourselves
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