#writ

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. ↗

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. ↗

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#had #i #me #never #number

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#achieving #blessed #clarity #cursed #documenting

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#felt #go #gut #hit #mean

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble. ↗

— Melissa McCarthy

#once #start #trouble #visually #writing

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#child #deformed #dismay #face #heard

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. ↗

— John le Carre

#call #his #i #i think #lies

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them. ↗