“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them…” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 📚💬
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Through these grinding 18 months, we’ve managed our kids’ lives as best we could while abandoning our own.
there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to my child from the time I spend thinking about my writing, or actually doing it.
Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood 🔖📚💬
Don’t think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train for reality. It always has been, after all.
💬🔖 “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than writing.
Catapult | On Writing (with a Day Job) | Richard Mirabella catapult.co
💬📚 “Harrow would be tripping over herself for her whole existence, a frictionless hoop of totally f-cking up.” - Tamsyn Muir, HARROW THE NINTH #relatable
💬📚 “Why have I surrendered so much of my present self to an abstract future self that may never exist? Why have I made my present happiness contingent on my future happiness?” Joseph P. Fisher in SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY
💬📚 “If you cannot bear our pain, you are not fit to carry our strength.” WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER, Leigh Bardugo
💬📺 “No one likes having a curse, but if you take the right steps, it’s manageable.” - Eda the Owl Lady, The Owl House Season 1 Episode 4, “The Intruder”
💬📚 “The graduate program… hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual development.” - Rachel Leventhal-Weiner in Succeeding Outside of the Academy