“Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I wasn't acting from the motives people usually work from: to feel good, to have fun, to make something last.” PeopleFeelsMadeBookLastsFunActingColdAngryExperimentsFeel GoodHaving FunMotivePeculiarClinicals Author:Joan Juliet Buck
“I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was resentful, shy, and inhibited around people who had written books. They'd done things I wanted to do.” PeopleThinkingWayBookDoneWantedUsedWrittenBabyEnvyShyResentful Author:Joan Juliet Buck