On writing, life, and art Thoughts from the front and back pages of Gargoyle.  "Each act of attention sustains one’s writing life and the making of work: how the essential ground of silence frames each phrase; in what sense the space of the page may illuminate an infinite shifting of syntax or measure."— Kathleen Fraser"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."— Henry Ford"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think."— Harper Lee"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."— Anais Nin"I write every day for at least two hours, and I spend the rest of my time largely in the society of ducks."— Flannery O’Connor"Write what you know, my first teachers suggested. But I have never been a big fan of reality. Reality feels like sandpaper on my skin. Sometimes I think I would love to escape the everyday world, and just move into the imagination forever."— Nin Andrews"To be hybrid anticipates the future."— Isamu Noguchi"Happy the man, and happy he alone,/He who can call today his own."— Horace, translated by Dryden"You fail…