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What stories can do, I guess, is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.


Tim O'Brien


#stories #writing #love

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.


Dar Williams


#february #form #human #letting #made

I was trying to foment a little dissension.' He paused. 'No, that's too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlike—injecting a little love?' He snorted. 'Through violence, of course, like all religious reformers.


L.E. Modesitt Jr.


#trystin-desoll #violence #love

That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?


David Baddiel


#life

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...


Conrad Williams


#love #parenting #love

One evening, at the time of the Six-Day War, I [Christopher Hitchens] had my wicked way with a lovely lady, who had earlier intimated that she did not perhaps find me entirely repulsive. We procured a decent room, as I remember, at the Cadogan Hotel. Perhaps a little flown with wine, I asked her to don a Martin Amis face mask which I had—with a combination of sticky tape, elastic bands, cardboard, and a much-treasured photograph—prepared earlier. The fair damsel was happy to oblige, and thus attired she permitted me to embark on the hugely agreeable pathway to libidinous fulfillment.


Craig Brown


#martin-amis #six-day-war #love

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~


Gore Vidal


#writing-craft #change

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.


Minna Antrim


#distinction #fortunate #hated #loved

Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys alone were forgotten, perhaps oblivion would be justly desired. But we are proud and jealous of our sorrows, we love them, we want to remember them. It is they that comprise the crown of life.


Igino Ugo Tarchetti


#fosca #memory #sorrow #trans-lawrence-venuti #life

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.


Angeline M. Bishop


#novels #passion #reflection #romance #writers






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