writing

Nature, I think: birds, bees, spring, fall, all those subjects which are absolute gifts to the person who doesn't have any interior experience to write about. I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

Sylvia Plath, 1962 Interview with Peter Orr

“The book says that in order to create an endearing character you need, to put it bluntly, to make them common- you need to get the proletariat to identify with them.”

Reservoir Bitches, Dahlia de la Cerda