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Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. ↗


— Julia Cameron


#writing-process #life

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. ↗


— Samuel Johnson


#writing #life

What's the difference?" You ask me The difference is, a smile touches my lips When I remember both the memory of you entering my life And the memory of you leaving my life ↗


— Tammy-Louise Wilkins


#happy #heartbreak #letting-go #loss #love

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start. ↗


— Ray Bradbury


#writing #life

We write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely...When I don’t write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing. ↗


— Anaïs Nin


#life

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life. ↗


— Gregory McDonald


#life

Lucas went even paler. “Then you’re on the track to suicide,” he whispered. “Take my advice, Valentine. Run. Run as fast as you can, for as long as you can. Steal whatever bit of life you can. You’re already dead. ↗


— Lilith Saintcrow


#life

Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behend," David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it. ↗


— Scott Westerfeld


#david #rusties #uglies #life

It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away. ↗


— Neil Gaiman


#writing #life

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ↗


— Georges Clemenceau


#interesting #persistence #power #try #life






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