“Fiction comes from truth. It is a wonderful, imaginative, flourishing thing grown from a seed of real feelings, real desires, real fears. No artist ever creates from nothing. We work from what we've experienced, inspired by the unique piece of the world we see. It's why art cannot be replicated.”
―
Austin Siegemund-Broka,
The Roughest Draft
“There's no truth to these pages, but the trick of fiction is to make you think there is. I let myself fall for it as often as I can.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Forever is about reaching into the future, into years far away and unknowable. Always is about every second of every day. It's as far reaching as forever, it just starts sooner.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“She smiles, and my heart ignites.” ― Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Reading and loving books are the fingerprints of who I am—no matter how much I change, they'll stay the same, betraying me to myself for the rest of my life.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“If I was going to commit to someone, I wanted him to be worth the worry, worth the part of me I was going to give him.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, If I'm Being Honest
“Honestly, I think every single word I’ve written since the day I met you has in some way been leading up to this. To you. To say you changed my life is the kind of understatement I could never permit myself to put in writing—you changed my entire world. You reached inside me with your words and your stories and wrote yourself onto my own soul. Before you, I was whole. I was one being, one heart. Now, I’m half of everything and greater for it.I’m in love with you. I know we can’t be together. Not yet. But if you tell me you feel even remotely the same way, then we will. Maybe you’ve never considered it, but I find it hard to believe that my feelings, screaming in my head night and day, leaking into my writing with a vulnerability that would embarrass me if your eyes weren’t the ones reading them, sound only like a whisper to you.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Of course I love him. I have novel's worth of what I want to say.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“It can be both. Fiction is fiction, and it's real. They're not opposites. They live within each other.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“I would risk dying of thirst to save myself from drowning.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Writing is where our--where everyone's--purest truths lie. On the page, thoughts and feelings can be expressed without interference, without ineloquences or fear or fumbling. There's no room for turning back or losing your nerve. Only one thing remains--what you want to communicate.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“The true, true horror, the one seemingly no one realizes but me, is that once you have your dreams, all you have left is the chance to lose them. It's inevitable.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Fiction comes from truth.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“It’s not hard to be with someone you love. It’s the most natural thing in the world,” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, If I'm Being Honest
“I could wither under his words and feel inferior or I could rise to them and become a better version of myself.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, If I'm Being Honest
“Everyone pretends. They pretend they're brave. They pretend they can predict the future. The pretend they can carry fears or difficulties, but they don't know if they've mustered quite yet. When we need to, it's what we do for each other. Perfect sometimes . . . requires a little pretend." -Helen” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, Do I Know You?
“I have so much practice wanting and not wanting at once.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“There's a claustrophobia in comfort. The threads become a web, confining the person I want to be to the person I was.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, Time of Our Lives
“Elle wasn’t a perfect friend. Our friendship wasn’t perfect. I know that now in a way I didn’t before. But just because it wasn’t perfect doesn’t mean it’s worth giving up on.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, If I'm Being Honest
“There's no truth to these pages, but the trick of fiction is to make you think there is. I let myself fall for it as often as I can.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Forever is about reaching into the future, into years far away and unknowable. Always is about every second of every day. It's as far reaching as forever, it just starts sooner.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“She smiles, and my heart ignites.” ― Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Reading and loving books are the fingerprints of who I am—no matter how much I change, they'll stay the same, betraying me to myself for the rest of my life.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“If I was going to commit to someone, I wanted him to be worth the worry, worth the part of me I was going to give him.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, If I'm Being Honest
“Honestly, I think every single word I’ve written since the day I met you has in some way been leading up to this. To you. To say you changed my life is the kind of understatement I could never permit myself to put in writing—you changed my entire world. You reached inside me with your words and your stories and wrote yourself onto my own soul. Before you, I was whole. I was one being, one heart. Now, I’m half of everything and greater for it.I’m in love with you. I know we can’t be together. Not yet. But if you tell me you feel even remotely the same way, then we will. Maybe you’ve never considered it, but I find it hard to believe that my feelings, screaming in my head night and day, leaking into my writing with a vulnerability that would embarrass me if your eyes weren’t the ones reading them, sound only like a whisper to you.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Of course I love him. I have novel's worth of what I want to say.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“It can be both. Fiction is fiction, and it's real. They're not opposites. They live within each other.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“I would risk dying of thirst to save myself from drowning.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Writing is where our--where everyone's--purest truths lie. On the page, thoughts and feelings can be expressed without interference, without ineloquences or fear or fumbling. There's no room for turning back or losing your nerve. Only one thing remains--what you want to communicate.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“The true, true horror, the one seemingly no one realizes but me, is that once you have your dreams, all you have left is the chance to lose them. It's inevitable.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Fiction comes from truth.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“It’s not hard to be with someone you love. It’s the most natural thing in the world,” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, If I'm Being Honest
“I could wither under his words and feel inferior or I could rise to them and become a better version of myself.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, If I'm Being Honest
“Everyone pretends. They pretend they're brave. They pretend they can predict the future. The pretend they can carry fears or difficulties, but they don't know if they've mustered quite yet. When we need to, it's what we do for each other. Perfect sometimes . . . requires a little pretend." -Helen” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, Do I Know You?
“I have so much practice wanting and not wanting at once.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“There's a claustrophobia in comfort. The threads become a web, confining the person I want to be to the person I was.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, Time of Our Lives
“Elle wasn’t a perfect friend. Our friendship wasn’t perfect. I know that now in a way I didn’t before. But just because it wasn’t perfect doesn’t mean it’s worth giving up on.” ― Austin Siegemund-Broka, If I'm Being Honest
