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To write freely is to walk a joyous, terrifying, exhilarating path naked through the world of the fully clothed. ↗

— Michele Garber

#writing #writing-life #inspirational

...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it; joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#science-fiction #writing #inspirational

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they? ↗

— Alyssa Hubbard

#writer #writers-life #inspirational

You're not going to write the greatest novel ever written. Nor will I. Nor will anyone. Why? Because the greatest novel ever written is subjective and means something different to every person. So don't focus on writing the greatest novel of all time. Instead, focus on writing the greatest novel you've ever written. ↗

— Sarah M. Cradit

#writing #inspirational

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#illness #shakespeare #writers #intelligence

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#dead-people #writing #friendship

Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses? ↗

— William Faulkner

#best-friends #friendship #friendship

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#immortality #letter-writing #letters #the-mind #friendship

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs. ↗

— George Lloyd

#big stuff #give #i #old #park

If it’s not already written, I want to write a book called, “The Art of Raw.” But instead of using my real name, I’ll use the pseudonym, “Sun Tzushi. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#art-of-war #book #funny #pseudonym #sun-tzushi