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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. ‘Love’ is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things real. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#reading #words #writing #love

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#divorce #evidence #infidelity #marriage #pencils

I write because I'm free, because I can, because I will. I write because I must, because I'm breathing, because I'd go crazy otherwise, because it's who I am. I write to make a statement, to share my thoughts, to discover myself, to express my ideas. But most of all, I write for future generations. I write for love. I write to inspire. I write to encourage. I write for me. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#encouragement #future-generations #greatness #inspire #reading

I owe a huge debt to Anaïs Nin, because I fell into her diaries, essays, and collected letters in my Twenties and Thirties like a fish falling into water. She was, in some ways, a deeply flawed human being, and perhaps she makes a strange kind of hero for someone like me, committed to the ethical and spiritual dimensions of my craft as well as to the technical ones, but a hero and strong influence she remains nonetheless. Source: Her blog. ↗

— Terri Windling

#inspiring #reading #writing #inspirational

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane ↗

— Hope Edelman

#life #writing #inspirational

Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing. ↗

— T.L. Crain

#truth-inspirational #writing-craft #writing-from-the-heart #humor

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals. ↗

— Don Roff

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write. ↗

— Philip Sidney

#success #writing #inspirational

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad-reviews #self-publishing #writing #men