“I do much of my taxes myself and … writing a book like my memoirs, I would do let’s say 3 hours working on my tax returns and then write 3 hours and it comes with ease, because it’s my life that I’ve carried in me and with me all the time of my life, so I write let’s say 15 pages in one go.”
– Werner Herzog on The Adam Buxton Podcast, ep. 218
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“It’s my life, it’s now or never
I ain’t gonna live forever
I just want to live while I’m alive”
– Bon Jovi, It’s My Life
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I’ve wanted to write for as long as I can remember.
Uncertainty and fear kept me back.
Now I write every day.
I love writing.
I am new to it.
I am of course in the honeymoon period.
But I feel like Werner.
I have been carrying around my ideas all my life.
I have been writing and erasing in my mind.
My mind was an Etch A Sketch.
Shake and it goes blank.
Nothing saved.
Now I have a great thirst to record my mind.
To make permanent here the passing thoughts.
It’s now or never.
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