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The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#nature

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#burning #envy #human-nature #marlowe #writing

Her life had been too safe to need courage, and too easy to develop resolve. ↗

— Stephen T. Harper

#fantastic-prose #just-plain-wow-writing #courage

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. ↗

— Antoni Gaudi

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How become a writer? Naturally. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself is a changeable thing, from season to season, from a sunny day to rain, from an egg to a flying bird in a matter of weeks. (Source: "The Nature of Cinderella".) ↗

— Marie Rutkoski

#fairy-tales #stories #telling-tales #writing #nature

I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that control and let nature take its course. A few will be impressed by your creation, others will be disgusted. Plus, no one will enjoy your success and achievement in producing it as much as you did. ↗

— H.O. Charles

#publishing #writing #nature

The right art," cried the Master, "is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#art #life #porup #writing #zen