#tin

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! ↗

— Larry Niven

#extinction #insightful #space-exploration #insight

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#london

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#writing-craft #writing-craft

And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will find someone before whom they could be their true self,without any pretensions and get an opportunity to release the pent-up emotions and feel light. ↗

— Chitralekha Paul

#internet #self #writers #writing #internet

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#internet

grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#writing-craft #writing-craft

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#writing-craft #writing-craft

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ↗

— Stephen King

#drugs #writing #writing-craft

This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you'll find it easier to tackle another. ↗

— Jeff Goins

#writing-craft #writing-craft

Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well. ↗

— Margaret Jean Langstaff

#writing #writing-craft #writing-process #writing-craft