#thor

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#austen #authors #jane #jane austen #other

Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow. ↗

— C.Toni Graham

#author #c-toni-graham #commitment #inspirational #ya-author

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#inspirational-quotes #writing #inspirational

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-poet #hope-and-despair #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #intellectualism

I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book. ↗

— Beth Revis

#debut-author #first-drafts #inspiration #persistence #publishing

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment. ↗

— Mary Gaitskill

#inspiration #readers #vision #writing #inspirational

Everything happens for a reason, it’s up to you to determine the reason it happened. —Nate Spears ↗

— Nate Spears

#poetnatespears #inspirational

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#challenge #dismantle #domination #freedom #heirarchy

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#creativity #freedom #writer #freedom

For poetry and I are one To separate is to decapitate For my poetry is forever. ↗

— Kerry D. Brackett

#african-american-authors #inspirational #poetry #inspirational