#tin

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. ↗

— Andrew Boyd

#destiny #empathy #pain #universe #love

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies. ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#non-fiction-books #non-fiction-books-inspirational #writers-on-writing #writing #writing-advice

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy, it's dismissive. 'But I don't understand this person', so they're crazy. That's bullshit cause people are not crazy, they strong people, maybe their environment is a little sick. ↗

— Dave Chapelle

#fitting-in #individuality #inspirational #truth #wisdom

The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously. ↗

— Christian Marotti

#dark #fiction #funny #humor #inspirational

There’s nothing worse than being violently jerked away from creativity. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#creativity #inspiration #jerked #muse #sex

The heartbreak of losing fades over time, however, the burden of quitting last forever. ↗

— Sarah van Waterschoot

#losing #quitting #inspirational

If only i could hold a pen, i will spin the world around. ↗

— Michael Bassey Johnson

#success #talent #writing #inspirational

The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#intelligence

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with. ↗

— Alton Brown

#both #frustrating #i #i am #junkie

I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero’s ‘sharply intelligent blue eyes’ and ‘outthrust determined chin’. ↗

— Stephen King

#intelligence