everything i ever write is too damn depressing.
"What writers have is a license and also the freedom to sit - to sit, clench their fists, and make themselves excruciatingly aware of the stuff that we’re mostly aware of only on a certain level. And that if the writer does their job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. Is to wake the reader up to stuff the reader’s been aware of all the time. And it’s not a question of the writer having more capacity than the average person. It’s that the writer is willing, I think, to cut it off, cut themself off from certain stuff, and develop… and just, and think really hard. Which not everybody has the luxury to do."
David Foster Wallace (via elefontaine)
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ZEPELLIN KING.: Rules for Writing
- The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
- Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money.
- Never use the word “then” as a conjunction – we have “and” for this purpose. Substituting “then” is the…
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"You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to."
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (via dynamodanibeth)
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on set today, and didn’t bring a deck of cards. fuck.
spending my birthday editing web content for plastic surgeons.
"Learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what’s around you."
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p. 158 (via industrialfire)
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"That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work."
David Foster Wallace (via oh-well-okay)
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