Francesca woodman
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(Source: cats-on-cocaine, via shoponso)
“I had the idea for a book right after I graduated from law school. It’s a series of novels about superhuman professional fighters, like what the UFC would look like in the Marvel Universe. I’d love to create an entire world like Tolkien did for Lord of The Rings. But right now it’s mostly just notes on my phone and computer. I’ve had goals in the past, but not like this. I’ve never sunk so many hours into something. It’s become a very core part of my identity. It’s like an application that’s constantly running in the background of my mind. Everything I see, I apply to the story. The bridge behind me reminds me of the entrance to the main stadium, which is a sculpted archway of past fighters climbing over each other. The book gives me a reason to explore more. I’m taking long walks. I’m looking deeper at things. And I’m especially paying closer attention to other people. It’s the only way to create believable characters. I have to think hard about the lives of people I meet, and the circumstances that made them who they are. So even if nothing else comes of the book, it’s made me a better person. Just having the goal has forced me to grow.”
(Source: humansofnewyork)
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader’s recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book’s truth.”— Marcel Proust, Time Regained (via mesogeios)
