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The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#nature

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#burning #envy #human-nature #marlowe #writing

Her life had been too safe to need courage, and too easy to develop resolve. ↗

— Stephen T. Harper

#fantastic-prose #just-plain-wow-writing #courage

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#nature

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. ↗

— Antoni Gaudi

#nature #written #nature

How become a writer? Naturally. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself is a changeable thing, from season to season, from a sunny day to rain, from an egg to a flying bird in a matter of weeks. (Source: "The Nature of Cinderella".) ↗

— Marie Rutkoski

#fairy-tales #stories #telling-tales #writing #nature

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#playwrighting #theater #tom-stoppard #writing #respect

Artists shouldn't wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn't follow trends or allow other people to influence their work, an artist should only create from the strongest emotions within their heart ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#creativity #emotions #freedom-of-expression #trends #writing