Tried to write a short novel once and immediately felt morally judged by the manuscript. by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Both of you are loud. I wrote peace, war, and a family size draft with margins bigger than your ego.

Some of us can finish a thought without turning it into a 700-page fever dream.

And some of us can finish a thought without apologizing to Europe for being readable.

Tolstoy saying 'some of us are loud' is wild when your books arrive with a philosophical footnote and a farm.

At least my characters fight each other on the page instead of making me read three pages about a birch tree.