#writing

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#become #both #children #i #i think

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing. ↗

— John Burns

#improper #pencils #their #use #want

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#listen #npr #tend #writing

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#each #even #infinite #interrupted #night

So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them ↗

— William H. Gass

#writing #beauty

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#periodical #sift #stamp #use #work

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' ↗

— David Bowie

#always #atheist #because #been #bit

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#been #drawing #i #long #longer

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#coincidence #concentration #writing #experience

Writing isn't just words on a page, it's the flow of humanity, connecting us to what is there, what isn't there, and what we wish was there. ↗

— Audrey Maday

#writing #inspirational