#writ

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#punishment

Menulis kembali kenangan masa lalu butuh sebuah keberanian. ↗

— Iwan Setyawan

#writing #autumn

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#deeper #did #down #grown #had

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#words #writing #literature

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#inadequacy-of-words #language #literature #writing #literature

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#literature

THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT PITY. THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT REGRET. THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT NUMBER. THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#wall-writing #regret

I am a writer, writer of fictions; I am the heart that you call home. ↗

— The Decemberists

#home

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#write #writing #writing-life #writing-process #art

. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them. ↗

— Kim Addonizio

#poetry #writers #writing #obsession