Book Recommendations
Reading: How to Kill a Witch
“Who knows why we were taught to fear the witches, and not those who burned them,
or those who stood by, watching?”
–Affinity Soul
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Book Recommendations
Reading: Talking to Strangers
“I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil.”
–Fiona Barton
Miscellaneous
If you need permission to take a break today…
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
– Anne Lamott
Book Recommendations
Reading: The Keeper
“The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else does.”
–Immanuel Kant
Writing
When it’s just not happening…
“Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.”
― Lili St. Crow
Book Recommendations
Reading: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.”
–John Stuart Mill
Book Recommendations
Reading: The Creep
“Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?”
–Neil Gaiman
Book Recommendations
Reading: The Midnight Project
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
–William Shakespeare
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Power
That’s not very nice
“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.”
–Felix Frankfurter
Book Recommendations
Reading: What My Bones Know
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
—Drew Barrymore