#writer

If one can, anyone can. If two can, you can, too! ↗

— Nancy I. Sanders

#writers-on-writing #writers-quotes #inspirational

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

We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to provide us with desires... That is the value of reading and is also its inadequacy. To make it into discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#life

An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell ↗

— Tim Lucas

#writers #introspection

...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself... ↗

— John Geddes

#introspection #writer #writing-process #introspection

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#interior-life #life-of-the-mind #writers #writing #imagination

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers. ↗

— Susan Cain

#extroverts #introverts #persona #personality #power

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#writers-on-writing

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. ↗

— Stephen King

#writers-on-writing

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#warren-ellis #writing #writers-on-writing