Total Creative Control (Creative Types, #1)

by Joanna Chambers

Why was it that, when something so intensely, unexpectedly intimate happened between two people, it seemed almost to blast them further apart? To make it even harder to be close to them?

Charlie looked at Toni with the expression of a man surprised that his toaster had offered an opinion.

As one of Lewis’s exes had once memorably said, “I think asking me out was your way of saying goodbye.”

“But that’s just it,” Aaron said. “What’s wrong with am-dram? What’s wrong with amateur musicians playing in the pub on the weekend? What’s wrong with people painting by numbers because painting gives them joy? Why is art only considered worthwhile if it brings in money? Why do you only get to call yourself an artist if you do it as your job?”