(I love gathering & sharing quotes from people & books & other such things. Here’s the latest batch.)
"There were so many ways of being hated, and one could be hated by so many people. In the beginning, we were so innocent of this fact - of how much we could be hated, by people we thought would like us, or by people we thought wouldn't care. But there was so much more hate than any of us had the capacity to understand. Hate seemed to spring from the deepest core of our beings. Years later, all you had to do was peep through a peephole and there it was for anyone to see - a whole world of vitrol, entirely without end. It seemed that rage was what we were made of." - Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
“Love was better than all the songs said, even Leonard Cohen’s.” - Eithne Shortall, It Could Never Happen Here
“…creativity lies not in the done but in doing.” - Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
“I always tell her that the crime section should be called Pretty Dead Girls and the Men Who Love Them.” - Laura Lippman, ‘Seasonal Work’
"I hope that if I bang my head against the wall hard enough, it will help me think of a story." - Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad
“I think the uncertain nature of the art of writing makes writers wary and even frightened of waiting. Worse than that, we are not taught to listen. But listening and waiting are invaluable. I am not waiting for inspiration. It cannot be waited for. Inspiration tends to come to you, tends to trouble you, when you have prepared for it. What I am listening for is a voice, a tone. What I am waiting for is a pulse.” - Ben Okri
"Now the earth is heating up in advance of its destruction by God, who has decided that the first draft of existence contained too many flaws." - Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” - Scott Adams
“Daughters are always good at both seeing their mothers and completely missing the point.” - Lyz Lenz
“If you’ve been on Twitter long enough, you’ll recognise that there is sometimes a feeling of anticipation: people have a reactive take ready to go and are just waiting for someone to express the opinion they are primed to denounce.” - Helen Lewis
“More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.” - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“War! What is it good for? If you ask me, absolutely nothing.” - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
“Feminism will have won when everyone is just in a nice, comfy knee-length dress with a cardigan.” - Victoria Coren-Mitchell