viciously kneading bread while listening to excellent women by barbara pym on audiobook and crying over a man during holy week. in the words of marilynne robinson: “ah, this life. this world.”

jane austen’s whole thing was writing books that are all about being the beautiful, well-behaved daughter of at least one complete maniac

If you are a bookseller in the U.S. and you have ever seen this book before, please dm me. we need to get to the bottom of this.

just when all seems lost and I am at my lowest, by some miracle, I always find an Agatha Christie I’ve never read tucked into a corner of my bookcase.

Writers, and I cannot emphasise this enough, FINISH THE DRAFT. It is only when you have a complete draft that it can later be posthumously published by your friend and literary executor, possibly in direct contravention of your own express wishes

fans of the scarlet pimpernel the musical (original broadway cast recording) also get this