Quotes by Joshua Mohr

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 letting your art be emotionally complex.

Art

Book

Emotional

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person’s struggle against society.

Novel

Persons

Struggle

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.

Errors

Poison

Trial And Error

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 don’t want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.

Escaping

Reality

Thinking

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.

Art

Challenges

Hard Work

I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that our past lenses of contextualizing events don’t work – they cease to matter.

Our World

Past

Writing

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

Adults

New Experiences

Want

I’m a semi-failed writer, but I’m a capital-F Failed musician.

Musician

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.

Book

Moving

Trying

I’m always working on something. Addiction never gets any credit, always talked about as a total liability, and I’ll admit that most of its traits aren’t positive in our lives. But there’s one amazing thing it gave me: a tireless work ethic.

Addiction

Credit

Work Ethic

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Addiction

Adults

Art

Beautiful

Being The Best

Book

Brilliant

Cases

Challenges

Character

Compassion

Credit

Daughter

Drug

Duration

Emotional

Errors

Escaping

Father

Gas

Hard Work

Healing

Heart

Honesty

Important

Jobs

Joy

Kindness

Mean

Memories

Mind

Moving

Musician

Never Trust

New Experiences

Novel

Novelists

Ocean

Our World

Pain

Passion

Past

Persons

Poison

Proud

Psychics

Reading

Real

Reality

Struggle

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Quotes by Joshua Mohr

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 letting your art be emotionally complex.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person’s struggle against society.

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 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 don’t want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.

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.

I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that our past lenses of contextualizing events don’t work – they cease to matter.

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

I’m a semi-failed writer, but I’m a capital-F Failed musician.

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’m always working on something. Addiction never gets any credit, always talked about as a total liability, and I’ll admit that most of its traits aren’t positive in our lives. But there’s one amazing thing it gave me: a tireless work ethic.

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