Stephanie here. For my YA historical romantic suspense story, I spent some time reading up on influential women of the 1920s. Coco Chanel is someone I was aware of but I knew almost nothing about her until reading Flapper by Joshua Zeitz. As I read about her rise from orphan girl to the queen of haute couture, I was struck by this quote:
Nobody can live with low horizons. A narrow outlook will choke you. -Coco Chanel
The first time I read this, I thought about dreams. About how dreaming big can help you live big.
But then as I thought more about what it means to have a narrow outlook, I wondered if it was less about dreaming big and more about enabling yourself to think bigger. There’s so much value—for your writing and your life in general—in exposing yourself to new ideas and different ways of living life.