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“The hardest thing about writing is getting in every day, breaking through the membrane.The second-hardest thing is getting out. Sometimes I sink down too deep and come up too fast. Afterward I feel wide open and skinless. The whole world feels moist and pliable.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius; and the uniformity of a work denotes the hand of a single artist.’ Edward Gibbon”
― Solitude a Return to the Self
― Solitude a Return to the Self
“Nearly every guy I've dated believed they should already be famous, believed that greatness was their destiny and they were already behind schedule. An early moment of intimacy often involved a confession of this sort: a childhood vision, teacher's prophecy, a genius IQ. At first, with my boyfriend in college, I believed it, too. Later, I thought I was just choosing delusional men. Now I understand it's how boys are raised to think, how they are lured into adulthood. I've met ambitious women, driven women, but no woman has ever told me that greatness was her destiny.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“It’s a particular kind of pleasure, of intimacy, loving a book with someone.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“men who wrote tender, poetic sentences that tried to hide the narcissism and misogyny of their stories.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
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