#writing

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. ↗

— Richard Powers

#economy #eyes #makes #market #market economy

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life #therapy #writing #life

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ. ↗

— Woody Allen

#life #writing #life

There are no tips for life neither for travelling ↗

— Guido Colombo

#travel #travel-writing #life

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters. ↗

— A. Lee Martinez

#writers #writers-on-writing #writing-life #life

Art is the overflow of emotion into action. ↗

— Brian Raif

#art #creative-expression #creative-process #creative-writing #creativity

It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except, perhaps, the last. They are positively oily. ↗

— Stella Gibbons

#art

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#motivation #writing #art

We live today amid ritualized anithumanisms. Among those intelligent enough to feel despair, some seek salvation in the literary artist. Artists love flattery; and the scam doesn't work without mystifying the process. The weather is unpredictable, but it is not mysterious. Wall Street is unpredictable, but it is not mysterious. Writing is unpredictable, (like street and sky, there are too many variables.) Its mystery vanishes, like a shadow, the moment the light aimed at your characters turns back upon yourself. ↗

— Doran Larson

#writing #art

Being discouraged is natural but giving up is not an option. ↗

— Court Young

#writing #nature