“To me the best books are the ones that make me SO ANGRY because like what gives you the right to write this well, you know? Beautiful sentences make me want to throw books and that's how I know the writer is killing it.

Like, this may be just me because I write, but when I read so called "good" writing that soothes me, I later realize it was maybe just mediocre and the soothing feeling I felt deep down was calm because I figured out how it worked. The writing that makes me burn inside is the real shit”

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