#ra

Although personal calling I sense, Who am I? even if I am, I don't know. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #personal-calling

The game itself is bigger than the winning. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #game #games #literature #literature-quotes

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #history #literature #literature-quotes

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone." - Will Herondale, Clockwork Prince ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem #tessa #the-infernal-devices #will #will-herondale

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#literary-criticism

(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#literary-reviews #writing #literary-criticism

The ones that landed near the bathroom are Bad Tolkien imitations or transcripts of a D&D adventure; bad Herbert, Heinlein, and Asimov are below the television; and these on the bed are the ones whose authors I want to hunt down personally and slap. ↗

— Sharyn McCrumb

#fanfiction #imitation #literary-criticism #literary-criticism

She was tipping her head back to inquire, when two men entered the great hall and the question flew right out of her head. They were simply two of the most gorgeous men she'd ever seen. Twins, though different. They were both tall and powerfully built. One was taller by a few inches, with dark hair that swept just past his shoulders and eyes like shard of silver and ice while the other had long black hair falling in a single braid to his waist, and eyes as gold as Adam's torque. They were elegantly dressed in tailored clothing of dark hues, with magnificent bodies that dripped with raw sex appeal. Oh, my, she marveled, they don't amek men like these in the States. Were these typical Scotsmen? If so, she was going to have to get Elizabeth over here somehow. A connoisseur of romance novels, Elizabeth's favorites were the Scottish ones, and these two men looked as if they'd just stepped straight off one of those covers. "Try not to gape, ka-lyrra. They're only human. Mortal. Puny. And married. Both of them. Happily. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#dageus #drustan #gabby #ka-lyrra #karen-marie-moning

Don't let your ego write checks your character can't cash. another from the world of tweets ↗

— Robin Glasser

#characters #writing-advice

She had fallen asleep with her head on his arm, the clockwork angel, still around her throat, resting against his shoulder just to the left of his collarbone. As she moved away, the clockwork angel slipped free and she saw to her surprise that where it had lain against his skin it had left a mark behind, no bigger than a shilling, in the shape of a pale white star. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #will-herondale