Elisa Doucette

“This is not a book of writing advice. It’s not here to help make you a better writer. Rather, it’s here to help you become a better storyteller.”
― Chuck Wendig, Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative

“The epithet was quickly moving toward capitalized status: the Lost Generation. In subsequent generations, similar umbrella identities would be ascribed to each era’s under-thirty crowd: the Beat Generation, Generation X, the Millennials, and so on. But the Lost Generation was the forerunner of modern youthful angst banners, and The Sun Also Rises was its bible.”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

“I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body. I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Too much advertising had turned the spontaneity of ‘la vie bohème’ into a huge commercial success,” recalled Montparnasse bartender Jimmie Charters.”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises