One Time A Professor Asked Me If I’d Ever Wanted To Write Anything “more Important” Than Romance.

Writing really goes one of two ways:

1. Write 3k words in 30 minutes

2. Takes 3 hours to write 3 sentences

There is no in between

But the dark feels different in November.

– Nina MacLaughlin, from "The Dark Feels Different in November", The Paris Review

“Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you apart.”

— Haruki Murakami

“you will never be too much for someone who can’t get enough of you”

— Unknown

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

Mood

“No, I’m not ok. But I haven’t been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though. I’m still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough.”

— Clementine von Radics

Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin.”