#raft

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. ↗

— Alan Tudyk

#actor #craft #geeky #i #like

The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft. ↗

— John Pistole

#affiliates #air #aircraft #al #bring

I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#crafting #doing #i #i love #love

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ("The Castle") ↗

— Michael Connelly

#writing #writing-craft #perseverance

poems are small moments of enlightenment ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#poet #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes #writing

Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness! ↗

— Monique Rockliffe

#knowledge-wisdom #writing-craft #life

When I first read Lovecraft around 1971, and even more so when I began to read about his life, I immediately knew that I wanted to write horror stories. I had read Arthur Machen before I read Lovecraft, and I didn’t have that reaction at all. It was what I sensed in Lovecraft’s works and what I learned about his myth as the “recluse of Providence” that made me think, “That’s for me!” I already had a grim view of existence, so there was no problem there. I was and am agoraphobic, so being reclusive was a snap. The only challenge was whether or not I could actually write horror stories. So I studied fiction writing and wrote every day for years and years until I started to get my stories accepted by small press magazines. I’m not comparing myself to Lovecraft as a person or as a writer, but the rough outline of his life gave me something to aspire to. I don’t know what would have become of me if I hadn’t discovered Lovecraft. ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#h-p-lovecraft #horror #writing #life

Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I began a new story. My characters are my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them. ↗

— Red Haircrow

#writing #writing-craft #writing-process #writing-style #life

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention. ↗

— Lisa Cron

#women-writers-on-writing #writing-craft #writing-how-to #science

Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#thought-experiments #writing-craft #experience