Claire-Louise Bennett: Do more of what's weird about you

"You have to do it more, because if you do it more then it becomes something."

Writer Claire-Louise Bennett:

“There is a pressure. You have to earn money as quickly as possible now unless you’re from a privileged background, right?” When Claire-Louise Bennett first started writing, she moved from Britain to Ireland, which – at the time – was a lot more affordable and gave her the freedom to dive into her work. But that, of course, didn’t solve all of the problems you face as a writer: “I remember feeling really down about it and that I was never going to get anywhere and all this kind of thing,” she says. “The thing I remember saying to myself was: whatever is weird about you and weird about your way of seeing things and doing things is probably the thing you should be doing. But you have to do it more.”

Source: Claire-Louise Bennett, Advice to the Young

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"Whatever is weird about you, and weird about your way of seeing ... But you have to do it more, because if you do it more then it becomes something.