Staying alive Quotes by Joshua Mohr

I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its readers are…

— Joshua Mohr

I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.

— Joshua Mohr

We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.

— Joshua Mohr

“I was convinced that she was about to tell me my card was declined, and assumed Derek wanting to talk later meant he'd soon…

— Joshua Mohr

Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering…

— Joshua Mohr

It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then imbibing, then…

— Joshua Mohr

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

— Joshua Mohr

I'm always working on something. Addiction never gets any credit, always talked about as a total liability, and I'll admit that most of its…

— Joshua Mohr

I'll never be the sort of author who sells that many copies. You'll never see a book of mine being sold on a table…

— Joshua Mohr

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

— Joshua Mohr

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

— Joshua Mohr

I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that…

— Joshua Mohr