#tin

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small. ↗

— Paul Auster

#reading #words #writing #life

What if I just want to die?" "Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life. ↗

— Megan Bostic

#book #never-eighteen #life

I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone in apparent authority. I think that is fundamental to a good education. And if it comes back to bite me from time to time, that's a price worth paying. ↗

— Martine Millman

#parenting #education

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#writers-on-writing #life

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#life

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. ↗

— Aberjhani

#contemporary-literature #contemporary-poetry #destiny #famous-poets #initiation

If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philosophical #philosophy-of-life #philosphy-of-people #life

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished. ↗

— John Grooters

#music #television #wanting #music

When you can't enter through the front door, kick in a window. ↗

— Liz Fichera

#life

i write, because not breathing is not an option. ↗