I don't know how to explain this, but reading and writing becomes a lot more fun once you stop romanticising it. There is no need to create a mood, build a ritual, or make it seem unnecessarily aesthetic. You just do it and get on with your day, like you do everything else.
i’m convinced that creativity is the elixir of life. not ambition. not productivity. but the simple act of making. the devotion to beauty. the refusal to go numb.
i think to be a writer you have to be stubborn, defiant, and at least a bit delusional. i mean, you have to believe—and keep believing—that you have something worth putting on the page. even just for yourself.
somewhere in your 20s or 30s you’ll get the opportunity to rebuild your life after a negative loop. its very important that you see that journey through