There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
ADAM RAPPThere’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
ADAM RAPPCriticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
ADAM RAPPI won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
ADAM RAPPI tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
ADAM RAPPGrief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
ADAM RAPPMy work is always more emotional than I am.
ADAM RAPPIt was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
ADAM RAPPYou have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
ADAM RAPPAnd there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
ADAM RAPPI find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
ADAM RAPPIf I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
ADAM RAPPIf it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
ADAM RAPPThe heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
ADAM RAPPI appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
ADAM RAPPSomewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
ADAM RAPPIt just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPP