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§85 “But how entirely I live in my imagination…”
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§84 “How I scribble; & what use will this be for my great memoir writing age?”
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“it took me almost a year, but I’ve finally figured it out”
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“Suppose one can keep the quality of a sketch in a finished & composed work?”
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“if this book proves anything, it proves that I can only write along those lines, & shall never desert them, but explore further & further, & shall, heaven be praised, never bore myself an instant”
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“so my diary will be defrauded, stifled by too much life. The unrecorded clogs my pen”
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“I feel as if I had loosed the bonds pretty completely & could pour everything in.”
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“Well, I will make a brief beginning—after 3 weeks silence. But it has not been silence at all.”
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“We make patterns of pretty words?”
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“I’m writing too much here.”
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“I’ve a thousand things to do. I’m so busy I can’t begin…”
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“I may have found my mine this time I think. I may get all my gold out.”
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“At any rate the reading for this blessed book is a great source of delight to me.”
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“I like being natural, & talking nonsense if I’ve a mind”
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“I don’t like being in any way deflected from my comfortable ways, when it comes to writing.”
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“Undoubtedly my chief prop is my writing, which cant fail me here or in…”
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“So in spite of a clouded brain, upstairs, fetch the books, & begin”
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This year is almost certainly bound to be the most eventful in the whole of our (recorded) career.
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I dont know if this is my last chance writing, or …
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unable to do anything, tormented by the desire to do everything