#writing

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... ↗

— Criss Jami

#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival. ↗

— Jack McClelland

#publishing #survival #writing #imagination

Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder. ↗

— Elif Shafak

#imagination #life #philosophy #truth #writing

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. ↗

— Don Roff

#inspirational #writing #humor

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#inspirational #learning #reading #writing #inspirational

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#evidence #inspiration #life #poetry #writing

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#inspiring #literacy #women #writing #inspirational

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #language #virginia-woolf #writing-philosophy #inspirational

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning... ↗

— Walter Mosley

#writing #inspirational

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying. ↗

— David Beaty

#novels #writing #inspirational