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“Often art arrives in movements. Bauhaus architecture, abstract expressionism, French New Wave cinema, Beat poetry, punk rock to name a few from recent history. ”

“Why read essays? Isn’t there enough good and great literature—and entertaining literature—in the world’s fiction, poetry, and drama? Why bother with essays?”

The most effective subplots appear to be unrelated to the primary plot, yet ultimately they link to your resolution.

This is no easy task.

“When you expect writing to be easy all the time, you will be frustrated, because reality will eventually prove you wrong. ”

What if people find out that
the girl they call
so happy and
put together,
is really just a mess
with her own bad weather.

“The story hasn’t cooked enough in your brain for you to start writing yet."

“How am I alone
even when many people
are with me?”

Your first chapter sells your book.
Your last chapter sells your next book.

Mickey Spillane

"Unemployment, the awareness of failure, the anachronistic relationship between a sixty-year-old man and his mother, my long-since confirmed bachelorhood, all of it had enveloped me in the typical melancholy of dead days. "

Anyone who thinks they can heal without doing the work is missing the point.

Louise Hay

“We agreed that it was the object of life to produce good people and good books.”

"As a writer, the best word to describe me is struggling. I'm struggling in every sense of the word-I read every writer before me wrote about it everywhere."

Before we bring another child into the world we must swear that we will find out what the world is like.

Bonne nuit, messieurs 🌑🕊️

“the irony of loneliness
is we all feel it
at the same time”

you’re everywhere
except right here
and it hurts

"We see and have words for the myriad ways racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, fathobia, and the endless systems injustice, discrimination, and domination take root, and we are furiously working to dismantle all of it."

".....Kita tidak boleh mengadakan perjanjian damai dengan seorang perampas, kecuali selepas dia mengembalikan segala yang dirampas kepada tuan asalnya!"

Pemujaan tanpa kritik--

Dalam bidang sastra terdapat kecenderungan yang sama seperti dalam lapangan politik.

Sekali seseorang telah mencapai kharisma, semacam kekeramatan kedudukan di tengah masyarakat, sulit opini publik dibelokkan atau ditumbangkan---