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To celebrate today\u2019s holiday, we bring you an excerpt from our latest<\/em>\u00a0Paris Review Editions<\/em> book<\/em>, <\/em>The Writer\u2019s Chapbook: A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from \u201cThe Paris Review\u201d Interviews<\/a>. These quotes are pulled from the chapter \u201cDo You Write Under the Influence?\u201d <\/em>Enjoy. \u2014Jeffery Gleaves<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve found that there\u2019s only one thing that I can\u2019t work on and that\u2019s marijuana. Even acid I could work with. The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane. Either you function or you don\u2019t. Functionally insane? If you get paid for being crazy, if you can get paid for running amok and writing about it \u2026 I call that sane.\u201d \u2014Hunter S. Thompson<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve tried it long ago, with hashish and peyote. Fascinating, yes, but no good, no. This, as we find in alcohol, is an\u00a0escape<\/em>\u00a0from awareness, a cheat, a momentary substitution, and in the end a destruction of it. With luck, someone might have a fragmentary Kubla Khan vision. But with no meaning. And with the steady destruction of the observing and remembering mind.\u201d \u2014Conrad Aiken<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts, and feelings. They are painkillers, pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers\u2014the whole spectrum of sedative drugs. As for visions and heroin, I had a hallucinatory period at the very beginning of addiction, for instance, a sense of moving at high speed through space. But as soon as addiction was established, I had no visions\u2014vision\u2014at all and very few dreams.\u201d \u2014William S. Burroughs<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTelevision was probably my first real drug. I have little doubt that it fired off the same dopamine receptors in my brain that marijuana later did.\u201d \u2014Chris Ware <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I do get is, say if I was in an apartment high on mescaline, I felt as if the apartment and myself were not merely on East Fifth Street but were in the middle of all space-time. If I close my eyes on hallucinogens, I get a vision of great scaly dragons in outer space, they\u2019re winding slowly and eating their own tails. Sometimes my skin and all the room seem sparkling with scales, and it\u2019s all made out of serpent stuff. And as if the whole illusion of life were made of reptile dream.\u201d \u2014Allen Ginsberg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLiquor, in my parents\u2019 world, was always your reward at the end of a hard day\u2014or an easy day, for that matter\u2014and I like to observe that old family tradition. But I\u2019ve never drunk for inspiration. Quite the contrary\u2014it\u2019s like the wet sponge on the blackboard. I do now and then take a puff of grass, or a crumb of Alice Toklas fudge, when I\u2019ve reached the last drafts of a poem. That\u2019s when you need X-ray eyes to see what you\u2019ve done, and the grass helps. Some nice touches can fall into place.\u201d \u2014James Merrill<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAh, \u2018that useful substance,\u2019 as Pynchon reasonably calls it. The kind of grass we had back in the mid to late eighties was very conducive, not just to having fun, but creatively as well. Read back the next day, a lot of what I\u2019d written stoned the night before might be nonsense, but there\u2019d be the germ of something I couldn\u2019t have accessed in my normal state, and that something could be worked up properly while clear-eyed. Marijuana is so integral to\u00a0But Beautiful<\/em>\u00a0that it\u2019s scandalous I wasn\u2019t able to claim what I\u2019d spent as a tax break. But then, in this century, when skunk came completely to dominate the marketplace, I gradually gave it up. It wasn\u2019t giving me any of the things I\u2019d looked for and was giving me a lot of the things I wasn\u2019t\u2014paranoia, brain damage.\u201d \u2014<\/i>Geoff Dyer<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve long used marijuana as an editorial tool, and recommended it to others. It really is like putting on another pair of eyes. It allows you, above all, to see the entire forest, not just a bunch of trees\u2014or vice versa, sometimes. I\u2019ve usually used it to edit, not write. But I did write large sections of\u00a0The Other Paris\u00a0<\/em>stoned\u2014I suppose because I happened to possess a particularly sharp strain of\u00a0sativa<\/em>. It\u2019s probably the first time I\u2019ve ever done it in a premeditated fashion over a period of time, used pot to kind of help me out of a certain kind of freeze at certain points in the writing. Of course, cannabis can also make you lose the thread or dawdle over word choices.\u201d \u2014Luc Sante<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Writer\u2019s Chapbook is on sale now<\/a>. This chapter aside, we would argue that it makes the perfect graduation gift \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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