#writ

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter. ↗

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

#poetry #writing #life

Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#writers #writing #life

If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about. ↗

— Sharon Delarose

#dog-lover #dogs #life-with-dogs #living-with-dogs #writer

Creating characters is easy. It’s getting them to behave that’s the problem. ↗

— Steven Ramirez

#life

Follow the rules until you make them. ↗

— Luke Green

#skills #truisms #writing #life

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#literature #metaphor #writing #education

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source: A Green Desert Father} ↗

— Richard Mc Sweeney

#esoteric #fashion #freedom-of-thought #ireland #irish-poet

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small. ↗

— Paul Auster

#reading #words #writing #life

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#writers-on-writing #life

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#life