“some moments are nice, some are
nicer, some are even worth
writing
about.”
― War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984
nicer, some are even worth
writing
about.”
― War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984
“When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”
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“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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