#tin

He stirred the fire, and when he spoke, his voice blended in with the roar of the fire's blaze. "I want tonight, Maddie." He twisted his body away from the fire until his attention was focused entirely on her. "Tell me you don't love me, and I'll sleep on the other side of the fire. Otherwise, I intend to take tonight. ↗

— Lorraine Heath

#lorraine-heath #parting-gifts #love

Something about stringing words together until you get them right is magical; that something is why I love to write. ↗

— Paul Keene

#love

Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, wheere love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the love. ↗

— Cynthia Voigt

#love

We are who we have been. We must keep this in mind to become who we would like to be. ↗

— Destin Bays

#true-love-in-time #love

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#creativity #music #songwriting #art

The Queen, bless her heart, has cultivated procrastination to a degree which is really an art--when one is vexed, as I fear I often am, one should recall that the Bowes Lyons are the laziest family in the world. Against this reflection it becomes remarkable that she accomplishes so much. ↗

— Arthur Penn

#royal-family #art

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium. ↗

— Émile Zola

#getting-old #tedium #youth #love

Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a gorgeous poem! It moves through thoughts and moods of the soul as if we're all but harps waiting for a breeze to pass through us to animate us. I feel the same way about art: that it is something that on many levels colonises you, gets inside you and changes you from the inside out. I find that happens with books, too. After I’ve read a book, for a couple of days afterwards I think in the patterns of the book’s writing, because the act of reading is an act of organising your own thought process. If you are reading someone else’s writing, you are having to organise your perception along someone else’s structure. So if I read a book by Terry Pratchett, a few days later there is still a little Terry Pratchettness to my thoughts. When I read something by Catherynne Valente, for quite a few days there is a kind of ‘jewelled’ quality to my thoughts. To read a book is to let someone else reach inside me and reorganise me. As a writer, I find it very difficult to start writing immediately after having read another writer's book. I have to digest it first, and let the influence pass… ↗

— Amal El-Mohtar

#influences #inspiration #reading #writing #art

I don’t want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I’d rather bring something new to the table that’s true to me and that people will have a genuine reaction to. That’s the whole point, isn’t it? ↗

— Veronika Carnaby

#veronika-carnaby #writing #art

I was into mysteries and thrillers at the time but I eventually I drifted into romance because my mother would always ask me to write "something pretty". I've never got bored of it because it's something I absolutely love. My books are full of hope and romance rather than sex. They are a form of escapism — you can escape the parts of the world that you don't like. ↗

— Ida Pollock

#love