“A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and ...” — Rachel Cusk Quote

“A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.”

“... the problem with being honest, he said, is that you're slow to realize that other people can lie.”

“The human capacity for self-delusion is apparently infinite – and if that is the case, how are we ever meant to know, except by existing in a state of absolute pessimism, that once again we are fooling ourselves?”