I'm falling into disrepair

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.