"Memoir is often less about the events, and more about the mind who is experiencing them. " ~ Roz Morris / @rozmorris.bsky.social
"Hope is a waking dream." ~ Aristotle
"Writing is only one word at a time. It’s not a whole bunch of things happening at once. Various things can present themselves, but when you face the page, it’s a couple of words, and then a couple more words, and, if you’re lucky, a sentence or a paragraph.” ~ Jane Smiley
"Be awake enough to see where you are at any given time and how that is beautiful and has poetry inside.” ~ Jeff Buckley
"Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone’s.” ~ Dorianne Laux
"... we invent our own beauty and our own paths and our own crooked, weird ways of doing things, but that they're not nothing and they matter, too." ~ Lidia Yuknavitch / @lidiamiles.bsky.social
“I’m trying to write something so good, so pure, so perfect that I’ll never have to have children.” ~ Chelsea Hodson