#in

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#writing #writer

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writer

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#language #meaning #words #language

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#language

Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#change

I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood. ↗

— Joe McNally

#parenting #relationships #photography

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side? ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #curiosity #george-r-r-martin #tyrion-lannister #wall

Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique ↗

— Catherine Fisher

#people-will-hurt-you #rain #snow #walls #song

I've gotten really hot since you went blind. ↗

— John Green

#blindness #exageration #stars

I don't know if you've noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the mirror. ↗

— Lewis Black

#raving #stand-up-comedy #stark #comedy