Joshua Mohr Quotes
No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.
My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.
The more we're doing to ensure we're following our joy and passion, that's when we really start to put the gas in our lives.
I used to consider myself to be a cineophile, and then I had a daughter. Ha! Now I barely see any movies.
My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.
Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.
If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.
My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.
I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its readers are up to the challenge of interacting with difficult material.
It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.
I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.
I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.
I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.
I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.
I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.
I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.
Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.
I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.
I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.
