#w

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#f-scott-fitzgerald #letter #on-writing #storytelling #storytelling

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#eudora-welty #listening #storytelling #writing #storytelling

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told. ↗

— John Green

#storytelling #storytelling

Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays- I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd. ↗

— James N. Frey

#storytelling

All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#stories #storytelling #storytelling

Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night..." Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#grace-brisbane #rachel #sam-roth #weird

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#existentialism #future #hopelessness #weird

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something. ↗

— Tom Waits

#weird

There is strong shadow where there is much light. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#enlightenment #shadow #enlightenment

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#wisdom #enlightenment