#craft

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#fantasy #fiction #lovecraft #weird-fiction #wonder

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#writing-craft #writing-life #art

The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#peace #teaching #writing-craft #art

Creation from chaos is natural. We've come to a place where we've realized that we have this actual physical need to create things. We've discovered that we hate people en masse, we're sick of homogenized culture, and these realizations have left holes in our hearts. We create to fill those holes, to be able to sleep at night knowing we've done something, even a small something, to confront the manufactured culture that is currently being churned out. ↗

— Renee Rigdon Zabet Stewart

#art #arts-and-crafts #craft #crafts #individualism

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. ↗

— Lauren Groff

#on-fiction #writing #writing-craft

You don’t create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants. ↗

— Julie Ann Dawson

#writer-feedback #writing-craft #writing-craft

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty ↗

— Alison Wong

#writing-craft

... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood ... ↗

— John Geddes

#different-language #mood #poetry #writing-craft #writing-craft

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. ↗

— John Edgar Wideman

#importance-of-words #insightful #writing-craft #writing-craft

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#character #fantasy #fiction #michelle-pillow #romance-novel