Lauren Jensen
@laurenjane
Lauren Jensen
@laurenjane
"My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
Didion, Joan. "Introduction".
... See moreEverybody's bragging. And then it's like, you know what? Just do the thing that everybody does and don't think too hard about it.
But what I'm realizing is the real sin of these guys is that oftentimes they don't have, due to the cumulative issues of not having good analytical skills and not a lot of perspective on themselves and whatever, not a lot of reflecting or whatever, their stories are weak. They don't know where to start. They don't know where it ends.
They don't know
... See moreMusic is painful to me in the best of times.
-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company