I Think Some Of You Need To Eat A Slice Of Cheesecake And Listen To Ambient Rain Noises Ten Hours

i think some of you need to eat a slice of cheesecake and listen to ambient rain noises ten hours

I’m begging you to write for yourself.

“But readers don’t like—“ who cares?

The only reader of your story that you should care about is yourself.

Do you like your story? Yes? Then it’s perfect.

— Jennifer S. Cheng, So We Must Meet Apart

Natalie Babbitt, from Tuck Everlasting

Sylvia Plath, in a diary entry dated August 8th 1952 featured in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

When Jane Austen wrote, "the more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense," I felt that.