Writing prompts (and ideas)
ARTICLE TO WRITE: why the quiet-rule of libraries doomed them, and what the bustle of Marrickville library gets so right.
“No. The secret is nothing compared to everything else. You can have a secret that stops mattering.”
Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE
Woah this churns some little writing demon inside of me — the way something so poisoned as a secret could leach all the way dry.
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
In his room, she fights his waning interest. Her sense that he is sliding away even when he is right there, as much of him touching her as possible, makes her worry she is losing her mind.
Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE
“Forgive and forget.” “There isn’t even much to forgive. He was always clear about who he was. I was in denial.” Campbell tsks. “He didn’t love you, darling. What could be more necessary to forgive?”
Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE
suchhh a churning idea, that the inability for someone to love you requires your forgiveness to move on — is the reason we’re all stuck yearning because we never learnt the importance of forgiving someone’s lack of love for us?