#rite

A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write. ↗

— Dermott Hayes

#inspirational

No person writes to win awards. ↗

— Mo Yan

#person #win #writes

Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told. ↗

— Ana Patrick

#inspirational #writers-on-writing #inspirational

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? ↗

— Slash Coleman

#inspirational #life #memoir #self-help #stories

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing. ↗

— Judith Rossner

#lunatic #publishing #writers

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct. ↗

— William C. Samples

#science-fiction #technology #writers #imagination

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell. ↗

— Alan Moore

#inspirational #inspirational

Before there were books, we read each other. ↗

— Lisa Cron

#women-writers #women-writers-on-writing #writing #science

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read. ↗

— Ann Marie Frohoff

#teen-fiction #teenagers #writer #writer-quotes #writers

When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#death #funeral-rites #holden #hope