Emma

All I want to do is appreciate things more, but amidst this hyper-awareness of the fleetingness of these moments, I’m distracted from doing just that.

“We may notice amazing details during the course of a day but we rarely let ourselves stop and really pay attention. An author makes you notice, makes you pay attention, and this is a great gift.”

-Anne Lamott; Bird by Bird

“Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Clutter is wonderfully fertile ground—you can still discover new treasures under all those piles, clean things up, edit things out, fix things, get a grip. Tidiness suggests that something is as good as it’s

"In visual perception, a color is almost never seen as it really is." (Albers 2013, 1).

"The good news is that some days it feels like you just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it."

-Anne Lamott; Bird by Bird

The way to greater confidence is not to reassure ourselves of our own dignity; it’s to come to peace with our inevitable ridiculousness

— Alain de Botton in ‘On Confidence’

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

-E.L. Doctorow

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect

- Will Guidara, unreasonable hospitality