“I realized a weird problem: when I tried earnestly to represent some figure or thing in a realistic way, my drawings became bad and embarrassing. But when I celebrated the fucked-up nature of my own line, the drawing felt more interesting and fun. There’s probably some art truth buried in there somewhere.”
— MARK EHLING, friend, writer, artist, in an interview with ENTROPY
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
— MARGARET ATWOOD, master of the dystopian
“There is a ladder. / The ladder is always there /hanging innocently / close to the side of the schooner. /We know what it is for, we who have used it.”
— ADRIENNE RICH, from "Diving into the Wreck"
“Suffering is not beautiful. Suffering . . . is about a real place in a real body where you face the other side of living. How you choose to understand that story probably determines how you’re going to live the rest of your life.”
— LIDIA YUKNAVITCH, writer
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”