“I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.” Quote by Joshua Mohr
“I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.” PeopleWritingImportantProblemProcessHugeWriting ProcessSeriousness Author:Joshua Mohr
“I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.” NeedsTryingBookMovingVariousArchitectureCardsSequenceLearnersAnalogTactile Author:Joshua Mohr
“I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.” SeemsProcessCasesErrorsTrialsAwfulPoisonElegantOaksPlannersTrial And Error Author:Joshua Mohr
“It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.” ImportantEndsFactsReaderPagesHundredBoundsValuableNineShelves Author:Joshua Mohr
“In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws they are admitting are somehow noble, or dysfunctional in an overly edgy, aesthetically pleasing way.” WayFeelsRealMomentsMy OwnPerfectReaderNobleFlawsAlienationMy Own LifeAdmittingEdgy Author:Leslie Jamison
“Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.” BigsIssuesSourceLimitsEmpathyEdgesFriction Author:Leslie Jamison
“Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.” MightActionRealizingEmpathyOur Actions Author:Leslie Jamison
“I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.” ThinkingWritingPersonsSubjectsReaderTopicsNewness Author:Leslie Jamison
“I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.” ThinkingKindCuriosityCollectionsOfferingCabinetsDemeaningCuratorObjectifying Author:Leslie Jamison
“I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then - if you're hard on yourself, in good ways - pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.” IfsThinkingWayHardActionForceAttentionEffectsHabitEmpathyScalesPushingTranslateGood WayCumulative Author:Leslie Jamison