Caroline Mays
@illemonati
Caroline Mays
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and an organizing idea. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Ideas I want to write about and Beautiful Sentiments
Maybe introduce this idea of the mini-memoir
I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds—which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
If I had to guess, I think the general disappearance of good manners has something to do with how we’ve been conditioned to view each other: as things, not people. We see other people as things that can get us things. Maybe we have such little respect for one another because we have such little respect for ourselves. The commodification of the self... See more
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
~ Cordelia • Tweet
You need a new category called marketing/advertising
Writer Gertrude Stein's definition of genius: somebody who knows who to be influenced by.
Katie Dalebout • this last list is light...
Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy