Esmé Weijun Wang quotes

I have been taking these photographs as I am dead, and then I look back at these photographs to re-experience what it was like, as someone who experienced themselves as a dead person. And they're the same. It's very much the same experience, just one is visual and one is more verbal. Both are ways to get through a very difficult experience, and they're also ways to remember it. (Esmé Weijun Wang)
I do want to be careful not to glamorise mental illness when it comes to creativity because more often than not it actually tends to inhibit creativity... View quote
Esmé Weijun Wang
I often say that medicine seems great if you have a broken arm, but if you end up with some more mysterious ailment, or a confusing autoimmune disorder, then you will become obsessed with the color of the coconut water you drink. The more lost I became in terms of my own health, my own mental illness and chronic illness, whether that was named late-stage Lyme disease or dysautonomia, or whether that was named "the mysterious autoimmune disorder that nobody could figure out,” the more I was searching... View quote
Esmé Weijun Wang

Esmé Weijun Wang

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Occupation: American Writer
Quotes count: 3
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