#writ

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#literature-writing #philosophy #art

I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself Toni Morrison when I published my first novel, The Bluest Eye. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#writing #art

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is--a politician. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#politics #writing #art

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#reading #writing #art

The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#weird-tales #writing #attitude

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence. ↗

— N. Scott Momaday

#oral-tradition #writing #attitude

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#beauty

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#beauty

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty. ↗

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#beauty

I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, but I thanked God for fallen angels. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#gratefulness #inspirational #thoughtful #beauty