“What more can we want as writers than such immortality? Don't ghosts just want to be remembered?”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“I want what Stephen King has, what Neil Gaiman has. Why not a movie deal? Why not Hollywood stardom? Why not a multimedia empire? Why not the world?”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“Awards don’t matter—at least, I am told this constantly by the people who regularly win them.”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“People always describe jealousy as this sharp, green, venomous thing. Unfounded, vinegary, mean-spirited. But I’ve found that jealousy, to writers, feels more like fear. Jealousy is the spike in my heart rate when I glimpse news of Athena’s success on Twitter—another book contract, awards nominations, special editions, foreign rights deals. Jealousy is constantly comparing myself to her and coming up short; is panicking that I’m not writing well enough or fast enough, that I am not, and never will be, enough. Jealousy means that even just learning that Athena’s signing a six- figure option deal with Netflix means that I’ll be derailed for days, unable to focus on my own work, mired by shame and self-disgust every time I see one of her books in a bookstore display.”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“It all reeks of desperation, but I can't look away. It's the only thing linking me to the only world I have any interest in being at part of.”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
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