Emma Darwin > Quotes

“all photographs are about death, really, and time: about preserving a moment in silver and chemicals, when life itself is never preserved, when every cell of everything is already decaying, and being replaced, and decaying again. The subject and the image coexist for the moment that the shutter opens and closes. And then the subject decays but the image lives on unchanged.”
― Emma Darwin, The Mathematics of Love: A Breathtaking Novel of Two Lives Bound by War, Passion, and Time

“Ann Lamott is a novelist and non-fiction writer. ‘…shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts … I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident.”
― Emma Darwin, Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction