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“It seems to me more than ever that I am a victim of introspection. If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen. I am possessive about time alone...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald

“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters

“The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.”
― Jack London

“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

“It still comes as a shock to me how irreversible life is. How there's no going back to whatever version of me existed before I saw that movie – the kind that switches me on to new streaks of consciousness by showing me a woman I feel strangely, formerly, acquainted with.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays