#ding

‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #life

When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#denis #dirty #jesus #johnson #son

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#book-stores #books #london #reading #life

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago. ↗

— Brodi Ashton

#reading-books #truth-of-life #life

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating. ↗

— Amanda Filipacchi

#life

Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#understanding #value #imagination

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small. ↗

— Paul Auster

#reading #words #writing #life

It's a blessing Madame Gamache and I had at our wedding. It was read at the end of the ceremony. Now you will feel no rain For each of you will be shelter for the other Now you will feel no cold For each of you will be warmth for the other Now there is no loneliness for you Now there is no more loneliness. Now you are two persons, but there is one life before you. Go now to your dwelling place To enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon this earth. (Apache Blessing) ↗

— Louise Penny

#life

Where were you while we were growing up? Did you not listen at all? We cannot understand God's plan for us. Everything is His will. It might seem like things are falling apart sometimes, but often God has something better in store for us down the line. You will enjoy life much better if you will just relax. ↗

— Beth Wiseman

#worrying #life

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now? ↗

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#reading #work #life