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What stories can do, I guess, is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

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Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human. ↗

— Dar Williams

#february #form #human #letting #made

When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down? What if he couldn’t get them to make sense, and no one, not even the person he cared for most, could have pleasure in reading it? What would he do? ↗

— Alysha Speer

#love #person #pleasure #poet #poetry

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there. ↗

— Francis Thompson

#love #nature-writing #summer #love

Pastikan kau bergerak, juga menulis dengan rasa cinta, sebab itu yang akan membangun jiwa Indonesia dan dunia. ↗

— Helvy Tiana Rosa

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People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books. But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.] ↗

— Mo Willems

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Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits! ↗

— Airambooksie

#quotes-about-writing #quotes-for-women #quotes-for-writers #love

My writing tools were my most precious belongings. My best quill pen was made from a raven’s feather . . . I was often so poor that I could not pay my mantua-maker, but I always invested in the best ink and parchment. I smoothed it with pumice stone till it was as white and fine as my own skin, ready to absorb the rapid scratching of my quill ↗

— Kate Forsyth

#kate-forsyth #love-of-writing #love

...writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend. It didn't have to be successful to be thrilling. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#short-stories #writing #love

I love writing about places I know well. Research is my least favourite thing, as it takes time from the story, but I can’t write about a place I’ve never experienced. ↗

— Dixie Browning

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