Talent Quotes

“If you’re doing something because you’re expecting a reward, then you’re not living in the here and now and you won’t enjoy the action itself.”
― Juliet Lapidos, Talent

“Finally he's beginning to understand that I never had and never will have, not in a million years or more, I can wait until the sun explodes, any interest in his narrow sort of wife-and-child-and-job life. Why, if it prosper, none dare call it life.”
― Juliet Lapidos, Talent

“Such a funny habit, underlining. The point is to mark territory: Remember this place! Later, you come back to the underlined passage and twist it in support of an argument. Reading as a means to an end: an essay.”
― Juliet Lapidos, Talent

“Pareidolia was the word I hadn’t managed to recall at New Campus Library, the one that meant seeing faces in a cloud.”
― Juliet Lapidos, Talent

“Edmund Bergler coined the term writer’s block in 1947.”
― Juliet Lapidos, Talent

“Poetry,” Shelley said, “is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will.” On the contrary, “the mind in creation is as a fading coal which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness.”
― Juliet Lapidos, Talent

“I had never seriously considered a career unmoored to reading and writing.”
― Juliet Lapidos, Talent

“Cooking anything in the least bit complicated came to seem futile, as silly as and perhaps sillier than spending money - on an outfit I would wear only once. The outfit, once worn, would find its way to a closet and later a trash heap. The meal....find its way to a toilet....for these reasons I subsisted mostly on Pop-Tarts”
― Juliet Lapidos, Talent