#alter

Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists. ↗

— Walter Moers

#the-city-of-dreaming-books #walter-moers #dreams

No one who writes a good book is really dead. ↗

— Walter Moers

#the-city-of-dreaming-books #walter-moers #zamonia #dreams

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. ↗

— William Gibson

#dream-state #fading #lost #slipping-away #vulnerability

There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large. ↗

— Walter Moers

#the-city-of-dreaming-books #walter-moers #dreams

Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that. ↗

— Walter Moers

#the-city-of-dreaming-books #walter-moers #dreams

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#draft #else #equal #passion #someone

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#cannot #deceit #facts #generation #historical

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps. ↗

— John Green

#faith

I go to seek a Great Perhaps. ↗

— François Rabelais

#french-renaissance-writer #john-green #last-words #life #looking-for-alaska

Having friends was really important, wasn't it? Even if sometimes they did stuff which upset you? ↗

— Helen Salter

#helen-salter #thatsaquote #friendship