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.
My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that. - Joshua Mohr
My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.
- Joshua Mohr
I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician. - Joshua Mohr
I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.
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… - Joshua Mohr
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…
It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though … - Joshua Mohr
It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though …
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. - Joshua Mohr
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.
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… - Joshua Mohr
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…
Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart year… - Joshua Mohr
Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart year…
I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you do… - Joshua Mohr
I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you do…
No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves. - Joshua Mohr
No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.
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