Zitat des Tages von Karen Bender:
You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.
What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
