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Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. ↗


— Steven Pressfield


#creativity #inspiration #sociology #writing #art

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. ↗


— Kurt Vonnegut


#education #hurt #writers-on-writing #art

All writers are insane! ↗


— Cornelia Funke


#insanity #writers #humor

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day. ↗


— Lemony Snicket


#writing #humor

He’s an indulgent sort of man…… With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships. ↗


— Coco J. Ginger


#charm #fierce-tongue #friendship-and-love #jamie-weise #love

Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. ↗


— Charles Willeford


#humor

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out. ↗


— Anne Lamott


#writing #humor

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head. ↗


— P.G. Wodehouse


#writers #humor

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. ↗


— William Faulkner


#writers #humor

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes. ↗


— Larry Hovis


#from time to time #get #going #grapes #i






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