The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
Henry James
I wish I was a lapsed Catholic rather than a lapsed Baptist. I’d still be fucked up, but I think I’d be a better writer. All the best writers scarred by their religious upbringing are Catholic.
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon (via libraryland)
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
James Matthew Barrie (via designdecisions) (via teachingliteracy)
