The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.
Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.
Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.
Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.
I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.
Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
We writers are resilient souls.
the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.
We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.
Where your life ends, your being doesn’t. Where your being ends, you don’t. That is what is able to have and move your forms.
The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.