#weirdness

Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright weird. But then again, you’d have to be. To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors. ↗

— Christopher Hopper

#computer-science #strangeness #weirdness #writing-process #science

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge? ↗

— Tori Amos

#weird #weirdness #weird

So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd! ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-different #being-yourself #conformity #different #fitting-in

This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she wants you to invite your girlfriend over for dinner." "So that she can make her feel bad and weird?" "Well she is kind of weird, isn't she?" Park didn't have the energy to be angry. He sighed and let his head fall back on the chair. His dad kept talking. "Isn't that why you like her? ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#relationships #weirdness #family

Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality. ↗

— Toba Beta

#force-majeure #latent #life #reality #secret

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#also #angry #bad #bad idea #every

Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#me #out #people #some #some people

He looked at Azaire, and his left eyelid slid down over the eyeball, remaining in place long enough for the broken blood vessels beneath the skin and the small wart to be visible before it was rotated smoothly back to its home beneath the skull. ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#home

But why?" Vimbai whispered, overwhelmed with the weight of accumulated disbelief. "What is happening to us?" "Who knows?" Maya shrugged. "Who cares? Enjoy it while you can, why don't you? There will be tons of boring shit in your life, okay? I promise. ↗

— Ekaterina Sedia

#weirdness #life

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. ↗

— David Remnick

#beautiful #beauty #broadcaster #caravan #comes