#write

Just write it! ↗

— Ted Bell

#writing-advice

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. ↗

— Angeline M. Bishop

#novels #passion #reflection #romance #writers

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

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

— Airambooksie

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

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fearless #inspirational-authors #writers #inspirational

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#writers-on-writing #inspirational

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit ↗

— Stephen King

#book #inspire #stephen-king #writer #inspirational

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize—too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries. ↗

— Kate Zambreno

#women-writers #men

The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#inspirational #resources #writers-on-writing #writing #inspirational

A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write. ↗

— Dermott Hayes

#inspirational