#then

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#almost #automatically #because #characters #come

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#basic #basically #i #i think #jazz

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#happens #i #intimacy #like #oh

Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my…You know what? Lets’ forget it. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#flying-horses #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #the-heroes-of-olympus #the-mark-of-athena

If we can’t repair things with the Romans—well, the two sets of demigods have never gotten along. That’s why the gods kept us separate. I don’t know if we could ever belong there.” Percy didn’t want to argue, but he couldn’t let go of the hope. It felt important—not just for him, but for all the other demigods. It had to be possible to belong in two different worlds at once. After all, that’s what being a demigod was all about—not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus, but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#families #fitting-in #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #relationships

Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#disempowerment #life #motivational #story #success

Perhaps the day will come where the validity of one's spirituality will be judged not by the correctness of one's theology but by the authenticity of one's spiritual life. When that day comes, an authentically spiritual Buddhist and an authentically spiritual Christian may find that they have more in common with each other than they do with those in their respective religions who have failed to develop their spirituality. (Beyond Religion, p. 98) ↗

— David N. Elkins

#buddhism #christianity #spirituality #life

I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shot Hoes I ain't caught Or shit I ain't bought. ↗

— Ice-T

#life

A man is not complete until he is married, then he is finished. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

#finished #gabor #humour #life #love

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion. The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability. ↗

— Herodotus

#athenians #compulsion #persuasion #poverty #money