#book

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#writers-on-writing #design

Amazing, life-altering anonymous picture quotes on FaceBook: Are they created by graphic designers who steal quotes or don't bother to research the author, or are they original and just have exceptionally less ego than I do? Cos if I ever write something that brilliant it's gonna have flashing headlights. ↗

— Fierce Dolan

#ego #facebook #picture-quotes #design

Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that any human being would like. ↗

— Kristine Grayson

#equal #men #romance #women #design

MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny. ↗

— John Rember

#creative-writing #writing #writing-books #writing-life #courage

You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet! ↗

— William Congreve

#diet

Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car! ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#humor #literacy #reading #humor

There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#books #thoughts #thoughts-on-writing #write #writer

And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues... ↗

— T.A. Barron

#dreams #ispirational #dreams

To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank; make some marks there. Many people are reading you. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#blank-paper #book #books #conductor #diarry

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure. ↗

— Kit Pearson

#libraries #dreams