#thor

Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues. ↗

— David Markson

#lenny-bruce #m-forster #nathaniel-hawthorne #norms #puritanism

An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals. ↗

— Steve Smy

#gemstones #imagination #jeweller #precious-metals #words

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave. ↗

— Kate Forsyth

#fantasy #inspirational #inspirational

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone? ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#poetry #power #russian-author #writing #inspirational

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#author #relevance #writer #age

You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference. ↗

— Crystal Marcos

#children #crystal-marcos #inspirational #thoughts #inspirational

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others. ↗

— Christian Marotti

#inspirational #reading #richard-deneny #inspirational

We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it. ↗

— Ngaio Marsh

#writing #inspirational

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run ↗

— Channing Pollock

#critic #criticism #inspirational #writer #writers-quotes

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arabs #authority #compatriots #east #including