Recent content by Paul Whybrow

"You don't write about people you know, you write what you know about people." Jan Mark

“I’ve spent 35 years trying to learn how to let go of the destructive parts of my character, and I still have days when I struggle with it. We all have our broken pieces. Emotionally, spiritually, in this life, nobody gets away unhurt. We’re always trying to find somebody whose broken pieces fit...

Over-thinking ruins you. It ruins the situation. And it twists things around. It makes you worry. Plus it just makes everything worse than it actually is. Karen Salmansohn

“The best thing about rock bottom is the rock part. You discover the solid bit of you. The bit that can't be broken down further. The thing that you might sentimentally call a soul. At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we can build ourselves anew.” Matt Haig,

A line is a dot that went for a walk. Paul Klee

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. Salvador Dali

If you expect nothing from somebody, you are never disappointed. Sylvia Plath

“Only when you do not know yourself, the opinion of other people becomes important.” Sadhguru

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. Walter Bagehot

“Sometimes we don’t want to be tethered to yesterday. It’s nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from childishness or childish things. Or maybe it’s so we have the chance to invent, or at least...

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain

“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.” Steven Wright

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.” Junot Diaz

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. Eleanor Roosevelt