with every day I grow a little more sure

"The difference between a writer and someone who dreams of being a writer is that the writer has finished. You’ve gone through the agony of taking an idea that is perfect – it’s soaring, it comes from this other place – then you’ve had to summon it down and process it through your shit brain. It’s coming out of your shit hands and you’ve ruined it completely. [..] And then you have another idea. And then these finished things are like stepping stones towards being able to find your voice.

[..] living through that agony is what gives you the humility to understand what writing is about."

Kate Tempest