#in

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra! ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#confluence #creative-process #ideas #writing #writing-process

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#craft #craftsmanship #creative-process #crudeness #culture

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inspirational

This place is full of Downworlders. You know that. I think you should try to keep the details of our investigation secret." "Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #jace-wayland #jace-wayland

If you're going to read this, don't bother. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#opening-lines #first-sentence

Deliver thunder, God If you choose not to talk. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #deliver #god #literature #literature-quotes

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #end #endless #eternity #existence

Universe is the Sun watching its own self. ↗