“I own that reaction. I felt that thing. No one can say I didn't feel that feel.”— Ariel Meadow Stallings, offbeathome.com
“There’s something freeing about someone becoming a little unhinged online.”— Ryan O’Connell, melmagazine.com
“If you don’t have time to read Twitter, you don’t have the time to post on Twitter. Simple as that.”— Amanda ReCupido, thebelladonnacomedy.com
“The event was good, and made me think about how precious time is and why as 26-year-olds, memes from high school are still cool.”— Money Diaries, refinery29.com
“After all, most writers (and other types of creatives) struggle with making a living from the thing, they love the most.”— Tim Rettig, writingcooperative.com
“The growth of online book piracy has the potential to damage the legitimate book market and make it even harder for authors to make a living from their work. This will harm writers and readers alike—if authors can no longer afford to write, the supply of new writing will inevitably dry up.”— Sir Philip Pullman, independent.ie
“Neutrality, distance, reserve: I have always believed in these things as my guiding aesthetic.”— Bret Easton Ellis, nytimes.com
“I never care about riling up anybody. That’s a waste of time. It’s always been about purely wanting to express myself, and not really thinking about the audience at all.”— Bret Easton Ellis, nytimes.com
“Money can’t buy happiness? I hate that saying. Money helps a lot of people. To pretend that it doesn’t is just woo-woo bullshit. We live in a capitalist society. Money improves people’s circumstances. It just does.”— Jessica Knoll, thecut.com
“People ask me how I quit painkillers and I’m embarrassed to give them the answer because it didn’t involve me hitting a rock bottom or going to rehab or joining NA. It involved me moving to LA.”— Ryan O’Connell, mylivejournalsucks.tumblr.com
“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of…”— Annie Dillard, amazon.com
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.”— Annie Dillard, amazon.com
“If valuing money over time is making us sad and paranoid, how do we stop?”— Charlotte Cowles, thecut.com
“Vindictiveness is not a great place to be writing from; are you motivated by the drive to write a great book, or a wish to punish someone or absolve yourself from blame?”— Elisa Gabbert, electricliterature.com
“I’ve always been a morning person. I just love it. I’m always amazed when I come across a writer who does their writing after they’ve lived a whole day.”— MacKenzie Bezos, seattlemet.com