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"In a brutal-beautiful world, you bear witness, care down to your nerve endings, corral the light, and ease the dark. You also fail and f*ck up, again and again. It’s okay. It’s all par for the arena."
"Memory is such an interesting thing. It is the only thing we bring along with us when we are stripped of all we have. Interestingly, memory is also a malleable thing."
"There’s nothing wrong with writing when you feel like it, so long as you feel like it on a somewhat regular basis."
"I think if more adults were in touch with their internal worlds, and proud of this fact, there’d be much less conflict in the external world."
"I marvel at the accomplishments of other writers and feel called to write back in response, which is the whole reason I started writing in the first place. That’s the most helpful thing, and the most constant."
"That’s why prisoners are able to write, despite the oppression, the depravation, the discrimination. They’re able to write because they can imagine community."
How did Tennessee Williams' legal knowledge influence his work?
"That book might make you die a little and don’t forget to eat durian ice cream after reading it."
"I want to believe that reading tunes the mind, that empathy results from the connections forged between a reader and a character..."
"I think the process should be an expression of the product, and vice versa."
