#at

Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can't wait to talk to me. -Madisyn ↗

— Tara Michener

#cyberbullying #relational-aggression #tara-michener #young-adult-fiction #love

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#serendipity #writing #writing-process #bizarre

What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself? ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #infinity #literature #literature-quotes #poetry

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra! ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#confluence #creative-process #ideas #writing #writing-process

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#craft #craftsmanship #creative-process #crudeness #culture

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inspirational

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers. ↗

— George Eliot

#family

Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#family

Deliver thunder, God If you choose not to talk. ↗