#rite

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread. ↗

— Janet Wallach

#history #writers #life

I can't tell you that. But not because I'm not willing to tell you." He looked down at the guns. A Desert Eagle and a Sig Sauer nine millimeter, and he'd killed with both of them. "When you take a man's life that's between you, God and that man's soul. It's a personal conversation you work out your entire life. I can't talk about it because there are no words for it. ↗

— Joey W. Hill

#marguerite #tyler #life

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#mainstream-lit #science-fiction #sf #writers #writing

What does he mean," I asked, "the humanistic values implicit in the physical sciences?" "You ask him," my father said. "Maybe he knows. Maybe down deep in the atom there's a little man sitting in a rocking chair reading the evening paper. ↗

— John Updike

#writer #science

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

The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#experience

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