Gregory Tarsiscis Janetka
@gtarsiscis.bsky.social
Fiction writer, reader, drinker of green tea, lover of gray cats and the Lost Generation.
All my writings --> https://gregorytjanetka.com/
All my writings --> https://gregorytjanetka.com/
September 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Try something hard and new, and try it hard, and take what marks you get.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to his daughter
#challengeyourself #fscottfitzgerald #advicefromdad
#challengeyourself #fscottfitzgerald #advicefromdad
August 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“Try something hard and new, and try it hard, and take what marks you get.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to his daughter
#challengeyourself #fscottfitzgerald #advicefromdad
#challengeyourself #fscottfitzgerald #advicefromdad
“If carried beyond a certain point, the religion of art imperceptibly merges into the irreligion of art, into a state of mind in which the artist deliberately fritters away his talents through contempt for the idiot-public that can never understand.” - Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return (1934)
#art
#art
August 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“If carried beyond a certain point, the religion of art imperceptibly merges into the irreligion of art, into a state of mind in which the artist deliberately fritters away his talents through contempt for the idiot-public that can never understand.” - Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return (1934)
#art
#art
“Now there was no danger and no emergency. It was only disaster now.” - Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden (1986)
#ernesthemingway #hemingwayquote #novelquotes
#ernesthemingway #hemingwayquote #novelquotes
August 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“Now there was no danger and no emergency. It was only disaster now.” - Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden (1986)
#ernesthemingway #hemingwayquote #novelquotes
#ernesthemingway #hemingwayquote #novelquotes
"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." -George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1946)
#politics #georgeorwell #madness
#politics #georgeorwell #madness
August 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." -George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1946)
#politics #georgeorwell #madness
#politics #georgeorwell #madness
“Often I think writing is a sheer pairing away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
#fscottfitzgerald #writing #writingquote
#fscottfitzgerald #writing #writingquote
August 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“Often I think writing is a sheer pairing away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
#fscottfitzgerald #writing #writingquote
#fscottfitzgerald #writing #writingquote
“Now is the thinnest veil between madness and sanity. Now is everything so simple that it mocks one.” - Henry Miller
#madness #henrymiller #writerquote
#madness #henrymiller #writerquote
July 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“Now is the thinnest veil between madness and sanity. Now is everything so simple that it mocks one.” - Henry Miller
#madness #henrymiller #writerquote
#madness #henrymiller #writerquote
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.” - John Steinbeck
#johnsteinbeck #writerquote #lost
#johnsteinbeck #writerquote #lost
July 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.” - John Steinbeck
#johnsteinbeck #writerquote #lost
#johnsteinbeck #writerquote #lost
“It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.” - Margaret Anderson
#margaretanderson #amwriting #writingquote #lostgeneration
#margaretanderson #amwriting #writingquote #lostgeneration
July 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.” - Margaret Anderson
#margaretanderson #amwriting #writingquote #lostgeneration
#margaretanderson #amwriting #writingquote #lostgeneration
"It's not an insane world. At least, our part of it doesn't have to be."
"Of course not."
"We don't have to work and worry all the time. It's been our own fault that we have. What's been the matter with us?"
"I don't know," he said.
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 1954
#sloanwilson #novelquote
"Of course not."
"We don't have to work and worry all the time. It's been our own fault that we have. What's been the matter with us?"
"I don't know," he said.
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 1954
#sloanwilson #novelquote
July 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"It's not an insane world. At least, our part of it doesn't have to be."
"Of course not."
"We don't have to work and worry all the time. It's been our own fault that we have. What's been the matter with us?"
"I don't know," he said.
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 1954
#sloanwilson #novelquote
"Of course not."
"We don't have to work and worry all the time. It's been our own fault that we have. What's been the matter with us?"
"I don't know," he said.
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 1954
#sloanwilson #novelquote
My latest short story, "The Waiting Room," is in the latest issue of Levitate, out now! Read for free here:
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June 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
My latest short story, "The Waiting Room," is in the latest issue of Levitate, out now! Read for free here:
issuu.com/levitatemag/...
issuu.com/levitatemag/...
My new short story, "The Sweetheart of I-4" is in the latest edition of Saw Palm! Excited to be a part of celebrating that absolute weirdness that is the state of Florida.
May 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My new short story, "The Sweetheart of I-4" is in the latest edition of Saw Palm! Excited to be a part of celebrating that absolute weirdness that is the state of Florida.
“It is humiliating to find how impotent unadulterated sanity is.” - Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow (1921)
#aldoushuxley #novelquote #sanity
#aldoushuxley #novelquote #sanity
May 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“It is humiliating to find how impotent unadulterated sanity is.” - Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow (1921)
#aldoushuxley #novelquote #sanity
#aldoushuxley #novelquote #sanity
“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.” ― John Steinbeck
#johnsteinbeck #writerquote #beauty
#johnsteinbeck #writerquote #beauty
May 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.” ― John Steinbeck
#johnsteinbeck #writerquote #beauty
#johnsteinbeck #writerquote #beauty
“After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.” – Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow (1921)
#aldoushuxley #reading #amreading
#aldoushuxley #reading #amreading
March 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.” – Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow (1921)
#aldoushuxley #reading #amreading
#aldoushuxley #reading #amreading
“I had try to tell the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.”- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
#hemingwayquote #afarewelltoarms #amreading
#hemingwayquote #afarewelltoarms #amreading
March 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“I had try to tell the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.”- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
#hemingwayquote #afarewelltoarms #amreading
#hemingwayquote #afarewelltoarms #amreading
Balancing out yesterday's terrible modern prose by taking it back to a master of the short story.
#amreading #ernesthemingway #bigtwoheartedriver
#amreading #ernesthemingway #bigtwoheartedriver
February 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Balancing out yesterday's terrible modern prose by taking it back to a master of the short story.
#amreading #ernesthemingway #bigtwoheartedriver
#amreading #ernesthemingway #bigtwoheartedriver
"All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is." - Ernest Hemingway
Keep writing, friends.
#amwriting #ernesthemingway #writingquotes
Keep writing, friends.
#amwriting #ernesthemingway #writingquotes
February 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is." - Ernest Hemingway
Keep writing, friends.
#amwriting #ernesthemingway #writingquotes
Keep writing, friends.
#amwriting #ernesthemingway #writingquotes
February 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"Anything that just costs money is cheap." - John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
#authors #writers #johnsteinbeck #johnsteinbeckquote #rememberwhatsimportant
#authors #writers #johnsteinbeck #johnsteinbeckquote #rememberwhatsimportant
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"Anything that just costs money is cheap." - John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
#authors #writers #johnsteinbeck #johnsteinbeckquote #rememberwhatsimportant
#authors #writers #johnsteinbeck #johnsteinbeckquote #rememberwhatsimportant
"I guess I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
#writinglife #fscottfitzgerald #writingquotes
#writinglife #fscottfitzgerald #writingquotes
January 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"I guess I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
#writinglife #fscottfitzgerald #writingquotes
#writinglife #fscottfitzgerald #writingquotes
Seems like a good day to finally crack this open.
January 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Seems like a good day to finally crack this open.
Stack of current reads.
December 21, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Stack of current reads.
Time to (finally) give up the pursuit of the flash of youth in exchange for the (potential, at least) depth of middling-age. No regrets, no pretensions, no protestations. I've watched too many things die in order to keep pretending that anything tangible will survive. Let's get to work
#writinglife
#writinglife
December 20, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Time to (finally) give up the pursuit of the flash of youth in exchange for the (potential, at least) depth of middling-age. No regrets, no pretensions, no protestations. I've watched too many things die in order to keep pretending that anything tangible will survive. Let's get to work
#writinglife
#writinglife