I grew up with dragons being on TV and sparkly vampires…let’s not get started on that one.
“opposite of what language should do, which is leave a mark. They want the language to be forgettable, familiar, digestible. To enter into the reader and disappear without a trace.”
― State of Paradise
― State of Paradise
“I will clamber through the Clouds and exist. I will get such an accumulation of stupendous recollections that as I walk through the suburbs of London, I may not see them. Keats, in a letter to Robert Haydon, April 1818”
― You Are Here
― You Are Here
“Oh, this is not going to be an uplifting conversation. He’s either going to bore the ever-living hell out of me or try to sell me something. Maybe both.”
― Radio Radio
― Radio Radio
“I loved the smell of incense and cedar, and the warm feeling that comes from being in a record store with hardwood floors, wooden walls, and records sitting in wooden crates.”
― Postgraduate
― Postgraduate
“don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
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