- “If you want to write well, you have to get your heart broken by the person whom you entrusted your heart with. Be sad, drown yourself in sadness and loneliness. Watch yourself die and wither like a flower inside. Love someone who doesn’t love you back. Break your soul into million pieces. When you’ve done that, writing will patch you whole again. It would be the glue to your wrecked and broken self. It would be the light to your darkness. The one who’ll save you from drowning. The only thing that would keep you going in your shattered life. After that, after you’ve done all those stupid things, you’d write well.”
- He sat on empty pages with insignificant words sprawled across them narrating love and alcohol and losses and drugs and homes with no roofs. His name plastered on cardboard covers binding hundreds of pages. Very well known and acclaimed, the rare criticism put forth against him detailed his personal life decisions which he didn’t seem to care to much about.
- All he cared about were his insignificant words being bound together for others’ amusement. His royalties went to his death, as he pounded the keys every night, he pounded his body; suicidal every night with store bought beverages and naturally grown trees.
- Stuck in a dreamer’s world of his own life, speaking in past tense about a character whose only difference with himself was the name.
- All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
- He called his main character an idiot and an asshole, which deserved everything he got belted towards him.
- Real self-esteem comes from overcoming obstacles, not empty praise."
- "Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again."
mar 15 2013 ∞
aug 4 2016 +