#tin

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? ↗

— Annie Dillard

#life

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life. ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#life

The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#disgust #horror-of-life #life

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. ↗

— Russell Baker

#except #journalism #more #politics #scrutinized

I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots. ↗

— Andrea Koehle Jones

#children-s-books #children-s-literature #roots #strength-of-character #tree-of-life

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays ↗

— Toni Morrison

#life

People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, `What? You`re married?` Strange reaction to have. Proves what people`s ideas about marriage are. `We`re having a baby.` `What?` As if it`s the end of the world. Of course, it`s the start of a brilliant world. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#actors #children #life #love #married

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writing-life #life

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#life

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #life