#rite

When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet ↗

— Strider Marcus Jones

#nothing #silence #solitude #writers-block #inspirational

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#inspiration #write #writer #inspirational

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block. ↗

— James Rollins

#books #i #time #two #writer

It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply. I can do this. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#inspirational #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #pjo #the-titan-s-curse #inspirational

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fearless #inspirational-authors #writers #inspirational

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#writers-on-writing #inspirational

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit ↗

— Stephen King

#book #inspire #stephen-king #writer #inspirational

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize—too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries. ↗

— Kate Zambreno

#women-writers #men

The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#inspirational #resources #writers-on-writing #writing #inspirational

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence. ↗

— Michelle Geaney

#life #poets #writers #inspirational