Thoughts I Return To

Focus as a thing we have v. Focus as something we do

On responding to tension with tension vs. ease

I can’t hold on to water if I clench my fist.

The only way for me to contain it is to open my palm, and have it move through me.

“I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.”

-Sarah Manguso

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.” ― John Cage

Normalize saying “I don’t know enough about the topic to be able to comment.”

– @Alice@beige.party

Great, great question. In the world of writing, everyone wants to succeed immediately and without pain or effort. Really? Or they love to write books about how to write books, rather than actually writing . . . a book that might actually be about something. Bad advice is everywhere. Build a following. Establish a platform. Learn how to scam the sys

I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy.