Anna McMahon

Avid Reader, Aspiring Writer, TV Addict.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

no one told me that half of adulthood is wondering if people are mad at you because they didn’t answer your email and the other half is not answering emails because you’re tired

[City of Literature @MelCityofLit]

Well if we are making demands!

1. Free public transport for anyone reading a book
2. Capybaras to be declared our national bird
3. A slide into Dymocks Collins street
4. Return of Coles Book arcade
5. Teleportation gates installed for all Cities of Literature

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

being a reader is just having approximately a million books on your tbr pile but the only one you feel like reading isn't out yet so therefore you have nothing to read

[Pat Rothfuss @PatrickRothfuss]

Just ran into the following quote:

"We all eat lies when our hearts are hungry."

Wish I'd heard and internalized that *long* ago.

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

Writers will be like "I love writing!" and then if you ask them what they're writing, they cannot tell you. In fact, some of them will, if cornered with this question, flat out sprint away from you.

[Anna McMahon @08_annam]

@goodreads I'm re-reading the Graceling Realm series by @kristincashore so I can read the latest book "Winterkeep". I am enjoying them just as much the second time around!

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

I can't relate to anyone who didn't, at least at some point, dream of being an Egyptologist and spending their life trying to decipher hieroglyphics.

[Anna McMahon @08_annam]

@PaperFury I feel this so much.

[Anna McMahon @08_annam]

Today's writing progress: I have alphabetised my character list. #amwriting

[Anna McMahon @08_annam]

Loving the faith @goodreads has in me. 🙏 #ReadingChallenge

[Pat Rothfuss @PatrickRothfuss]

Me to my children: You know how before you throw up you feel really bad? But *after* you throw up you feel really good?

Them: Nodding.

Me: Crying is like throwing up, but for your heart.

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

to the writers who struggle to focus
who deal with mental illness
who work several jobs
who write words slowly slowly
who need lots of encouragement
who write the books they need but can't find
who are proud but anxious about their work

you're doing 🥺💞a good job💛🌷don't stop

[friendlyjordies @friendlyjordies]

RT if you love Koalas!

[Mark Humphries @markhumphries]

Still not the day to discuss this. #NSWbushfires

[The Stoic Emperor @TheStoicEmperor]

Belittling others is the lowest use for a good intellect.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” ― Lao Tzu

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

"Be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant." Marcus Aurelius

[Anna McMahon @08_annam]

Today I inexplicably have dirt under my fingernails so I am totally rocking the just-crawled-out-of-my-grave look. #Halloween #dirt #weird

[The Stoic Emperor @TheStoicEmperor]

Hatred is briefly energizing but ultimately exhausting.

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

Brain: we should WRITE
Me: good idea
Brain: here are characters, an aesthetic board, playlist...oh oh! we can daydream so many epic scene snippets and--
Me: great! now how does it all fit together?
Brain: [has left the chat]