#tin

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ("The Castle") ↗

— Michael Connelly

#writing #writing-craft #perseverance

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#resistance #resistance

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.) ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#helping-others #latin #self #duty

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison ↗

— Sean Liburd

#reading #toni-morrison #writing-life #life

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous. ↗

— Preston Sturges

#life

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay. ↗

— Richard Rodriguez

#essay #life #private #public #richard-rodriguez

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life." - Lena Gray ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#waiting #intelligence

The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned. ↗

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

#travel #travel-writing #life

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#destiny

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#fate #destiny