Jessie Drew

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.” —Jim Jarmusch”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“give me a moment… i am adjusting the roses in my tongue.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“Dr. Severin was thinking that the brain was a monstrous and beautiful thing. A ravishing chaos.”
― Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand

“Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. ”
― Joyce Carol Oates