“I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of my thoughts leads to more than a couple paragraphs of writing, I'll go into these documents and pull out lines that I think would work with it.” IfsThinkingWritingStoriesLinesCouplePagesFilledDocumentsMy ThoughtsParagraphOne Liner Author:Chelsea Martin
“I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsLaughingTenMake Me Laugh Author:Chelsea Martin
“I think it's really important to have a sense of humor.” ThinkingImportantSense Of Humor Author:Chelsea Martin
“There is a lot of stuff I write that makes it seem like my intention is to make people think I'm speaking about myself entirely, and it is my intention to make people think that, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's what it is.” PeopleThinkingWritingMeanSeemsStuffIntention Author:Chelsea Martin
“I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.” PeopleThinkingHardAchieveConnectionsIntimacyHard Things Author:Chelsea Martin
“People choose the most flattering photos of themselves to put on Facebook. Text messages can be vague and confusing. But conversations are confusing too. And some people wear lots of makeup. I think it's just hard to be a person.” PeopleThinkingPersonsHardConversationMessagesMakeupVagueConfusingFlatteringText Message Author:Chelsea Martin
“When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.” ThinkingFatherParentTermViolenceDadMy DadConfusingDomestic Violence Author:Chelsea Martin
“I think I've been able to express some of the more complicated feelings I had.” ThinkingFeelingsComplicated Author:Chelsea Martin
“The thing about writing or making art is that I'm not thinking about that stuff while I'm doing it. Like the driver's ed kid, in retrospect I see that that was meaningful, and I felt close to him in that way, but at the time I just thought it was fun to draw, and that's all it was. I think that's what's weird about life and about making art. You have to talk about it later. I guess I should be prepared to talk about it now. That is why I'm here. But again, pass.” ThinkingWritingArtKidsFunArt IsMeaningfulBe Prepared Author:Chelsea Martin
