As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. Itโs not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.
Scott LynchYou simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.
Scott LynchIt was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.
Scott LynchI think itโs fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that weโre unique geniuses, and the constant fear that weโre witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.
Scott Lynch