#rite

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, Life on the Mississippi and the King James Bible that are on the shelves. ↗

— Roy Blount Jr.

#life

My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to? ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#life-and-living #life-story #loneliness #solitude #story

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#life #music #musician #singer #songwriter

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

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#hypocrisy #hypocrites #belief

I kissed Ryan, and it charged him up like a freaking Duracell. ↗

— Kelly Oram

#supernatural #young-adult #supernatural

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life. ↗

— Cao Yu

#best #during #i #just #life

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in. ↗

— Rayne Hall

#writer #writing #writing-life #life

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#writer

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#writer