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Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.



Dark Jar Tin Zoo


#amazement #amazing #commas #editing #funny

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered...


Tim Perkins


#artist #author #childrens-books #fantasy #illustrator

To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it.


Gustave Flaubert


#writers #writing #age

We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to enter into the minds and hearts of our own people, all of them, to comprehend them (us) and then to make characters and plots in stories that in honesty and with honesty reveal them (ourselves) to us, in whatever situation we live through in our own times: this is the continuing job, and it's no harder now than it ever was, I suppose. Every writer, like everybody else, thinks he's living through the crisis of the ages. To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most


Eudora Welty


#writers #writing #age

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.


Charles Bukowski


#writing #art

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.


Brian Keene


#inspirational #writers #writing #art

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.


Gustave Flaubert


#artists #creativity #flattery #public #readers

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.


Edward Gibbon


#book #composition #habits #i #learning

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.


C.S. Lewis


#christianity #integrity #literature #writers #art

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.


Calvin Trillin


#funny #inappropriate #nothing #then #write






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