#rite

Words both written and read are my passion. ↗

— Leslie Austin

#inspiration #motto #writer #inspirational

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

On a deux vies et la deuxième commence le jour ou l'on se rend compte qu'on n'en a qu'une. ↗

— Confucius

#confucius #favourite #french-quotes #inspirational #life

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do. ↗

— Eveli Acosta

#indie-author #indie-writing #writers #writers-life #writers-on-writing

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. ↗

— Hugo Gernsback

#clouds #description #detective #methods #modern

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. ↗

— Mika Waltari

#come #differ #dread #during #gods

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#bore #changes #else #every #every time

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#consider #flailing #i #myself #writer

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#command #editing #editor #even #first