Leah Williams

“All you San Franciscos will have to fall eventually and burn again.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Writers need to hide in bourgeois life like ticks need to hide in an animal's fur: the deeper they're buried the better.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“Do you think it’s possible to ever see the past as it actually was?”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“For many women,’ she said, ‘having a child is their central experience of creativity, and yet the child will never remain a created object; unless,’ she said, ‘the mother’s sacrifice of herself is absolute, which mine never could have been, and which no woman’s ought to be these days.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline