#raf

Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#craft #literature #poetry #self-confidence #skill

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~ ↗

— Gore Vidal

#writing-craft #change

I was here but now I'm gone I left my name to carry on Those who liked me Liked me well Those who didn't can go to hell'" -The bathroom wall ↗

— E.M. Crane

#inspirational #inspirational

Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing. ↗

— T.L. Crain

#truth-inspirational #writing-craft #writing-from-the-heart #humor

That's the good thing about writing. You don't need any special degree or anything to do it. You just do it. ↗

— Chris Stocking

#writing #writing-craft #writing-process #inspirational

God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a book. For me, there is no more noble a cause and no more honorable a vocation than to say, like Him, I am a writer. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#writing #writing-craft #inspirational

Because the purpose of feminism isn’t to make a particular type of woman. The idea that there are inherently wrong and inherently right “types” of women is what’s screwed feminism for so long — this belief that “we” wouldn’t accept slaggy birds, dim birds, birds that bitch, birds that hire cleaners, birds that stay at home with their kids, birds that have pink Mini Metros with POWERED BY FAIRY DUST! bumper stickers, birds in burkas or birds that like to pretend, in their heads, that they’re married to Zach Braff from Scrubs and that you sometimes have sex in an ambulance while the rest of the cast watch and, latterly, clap. You know what? Feminism will have all of you. What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are. ↗

— Caitlin Moran

#zach-braff #men

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#fiction #writing-craft #men

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#inspirational #speech #writing #inspirational

I’ve been held down like a piece of meat while monsters disguised as men violated me again & again. ↗

— Gladys Lawson

#sex-trafficking #men