Claire-Louise Bennett: Whatever is weird about you, do it more

Author Claire-Louise Bennett:

One of the things I remember saying to myself was: whatever is weird about you — about your way of seeing things and doing things — is probably the thing you should be doing. But you have to do it more.

Because if you do it more, it becomes something.

So I think that’s the advice I would give. Rather than trying to conform, ask: what is weird about what you’re doing? What is weird about you? Not just a bit quirky, but find the core of it — and really get into that. Because that can be really interesting, and it can give you an awful lot, actually.

Source: Interview by Caroline Albertine Minor at the Louisiana Literature festival in 2022