#or

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it ↗

— Alfred Lansing

#writing-advice #writing-humor #writing-life #experience

(...) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#storytelling #experience

All stories are true. But some of them never happened. ↗

— James A. Owen

#perspective #stories #perspective

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#story #connection

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk. ↗

— Henry Jenkins

#contemporary

I don't know what the future holds. I only know that I want to be with you. You and me. Everything else is negotiable. ↗

— Joan Kilby

#romance #contemporary

I have the sick fantasy that whatever I see at the movies is going to happen to me at home. My bladder capacity increased tenfold after I saw "The Shining" because I was sure that if I went into the bathroom late at night, there would be a dead woman in the bathtub. ↗

— Bailey White

#home

I winked and locked my arm in Carter's, and we stood there, watching Dean stroll away. "You know the guy's never gonna give up," Carter nudged me, letting out a sigh. "We'd have really pretty babies, huh?" "Yup. They'd be rad little Brangelinas, running around tearing the place up." "Yeah, you're right. My rejection is such a disservice to the world... ↗

— Rachael Wade

#contemporary-romance #drama #kate #preservation #rachael-wade

I want there to be happily-ever-afters for the fucked-up crowd. Show me the way, Eva honey. Make me believe. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#contemporary-romance #contemporary

Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#gideon-cross #contemporary