#moranthology

[literatureonline]

Putting things on paper doesn't make it matter less. Putting things on paper makes it matter more.

Caitlin Moran, Moranthology

[thehungrylittlebookworm]

“I for years knew that I wanted to write books and films and tv shows, but I was like, I can’t, I don’t know how to write those kind of stories, I don’t have any stories in me. Because to me, a story was a teenage boy who felt slightly alienated from his society finding out a magic power, such as being bitten by a radioactive spider or discovering that he had the Force, and then going on a journey where he found a mentor and then destroyed the Death Star. And I was like... I don’t have a classic archetype monomyth story, so I’m screwed, I’ve got no stories to write. 

“And I had a sudden revelation when I was about 34 or 35 which was, these are all the stories that already exist...where are all the stories that don’t exist? Where’s all the stuff that’s not being written at the moment? 

“...And I think particularly for women or if you come from any kind of underrepresented minority, it’s very easy to just sit there and go, yeah, but they don’t have stories like that yet, they don’t have businesses like that, they don’t have people like that. 

“And whenever you’re thinking that, there’s nothing like that, there’s nothing like I am, you have to add one word to the end of that sentence that changes everything, and you go, there aren’t things like that yet. There aren’t people like that yet. And you are that yet, that’s what you do. You start writing a list of all the things you can’t see and making those happen....You are the one that is going to invent the future. ...People are only telling you what they know exists so far. If you’ve decided that your job is to create the future, you’re going to have to go out and work out how you’re going to do that yourself, and just go, I am the yet.” 

[literatureonline]

There is always something to look back on, with satisfaction, or forward to, with joy. There is always a moment where you boggle at the world-at yourself-at the whole, unlikely, precarious business of being alive-and then start laughing.

Caitlin Moran, Moranthology

[literatureonline]

Asking questions is beautiful. Asking questions is enough.

Caitlin Moran, Moranthology

[coverspy]

Moranthology, Caitlin Moran (F, 20s, sides of head shaved with short dreads on top, black and grey Air Jordans, faux snakeskin handbag on lap, 5 train)

[vaniushka]

You put yourself somewhere you shouldn't be. You are the odd thing out. A misplaced item in the bagging area. And this is how you want to change the world: just by being a misplaced particle. Difficult to tidy away.

I love a protestor. You don’t need answers - just questions, by Caitlin Moran

[vaniushka]

But a protestor - a proper protestor; someone out there, protesting- I find to be a beautiful thing. An objection made flesh, a whole body made over to do one thing - voice disapproval, simply by standing somewhere.

I love a protestor. You don’t need answers - just questions, by Caitlin Moran

[the-final-sentence]

With a beaming, hopefully non-stalkerish, ‘Thank you.’

Caitlin Moran, from “Sherlock Review 1: Like a Jaguar in a Cello” in Moranthology