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Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored.  Writing is a jealous and needy lover. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#creativity #inopportunity #jealousy #need #richelle

If you want to check someone's principles, give him authority .. Then have a seat & watch ↗

— أحمد عمارة

#life-lessons #principles #life

An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#writer #writing #inspirational

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that? ↗

— Shandy L. Kurth

#banned-books #controversy #reading #writing #life

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #writers #life

Life is too short to dwell in the negativity all the time. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#negativity #postive-life #postive-thinking #writing-life #life

Literary style is like crystal-ware: the cleaner the wineglass, the brighter the brilliance. As a reader, I agree with those who believe that a colour of the dress, which a character has on, as well as any enumeration and description of dishes at dinner or in the kitchen should be mentioned only in case if all this has a strong consequent relation to the plot, but as an author, I can’t help mentioning all this, with no particular reason, just for love for my characters, desiring to give them something nice and pleasant. Melancholy grows a platinum rose. Affection grows a double rose. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#creative-writing #literature #love

If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr. ↗

— Edward Medina

#books #fran-lebowitz #humor #james-bond #love

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#diplomacy #fear #power #men

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#writing #nature