#tin

Learn the rules before you break them. ↗

— Steven Taylor Goldsberry

#learning #writing #writing-craft

As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken. ↗

— Robert Bly

#writing #writing-advice

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#before #big #brain #happen #happening

Anorexia is not an illness of the body; it is an illness of the mind. ↗

— Lynn Crilly

#eating-disorders

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy. ↗

— Phil Cooke

#self-expression #writing #mental-health

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#writer-quotes #writing #writers-quotes

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what? ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#writing #writers-quotes

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#around #belly #books #copy #done

You need a place just a click over middle range. Don’t want to go all-out first time, but you don’t want to run on the cheap either. You want atmosphere, but not stuffy. A nice established place.” “Bob, you’re going to give me an ulcer.” “This is all ammunition, Cart. All ammo. You want to be able to order a nice bottle of wine. Oh, and after dinner, if she says how she doesn’t want dessert, you suggest she pick one and you’ll split it. Women love that. Sharing dessert’s sexy. Do not go on and on about your job over dinner. Certain death. Get her to talk about hers, and what she likes to do. Then—” “Should I be writing this down? ↗

— Nora Roberts

#friends #friendships #humor #love #dating

He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light: Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dream. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#gabriel-rossetti #lizzie-siddal #poetry #pre-raphaelite #dreams