#writing

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#before #began #fiction #i #reading

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #being #black #did #difficult

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#asks #doubt #guide #hence #him

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#fun #i #jokes #laugh #most

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#around #bird #deck #different #enticing

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. ↗

— John le Carre

#dust #like #make #mud #out

How do you even know I'm someone you'll want to remember? We've only seen each other once before.' (Amber) 'Have you ever looked at a painting and known you had something in common with it? Have you ever seen something so beautiful you feel like crying? When I see you, I feel that way. I feel like the deepest part of me understands something vital about you.' (Virgil Daly) ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #inspiration #love #painting #precipice

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe. ↗

— Neko Case

#i #i think #little #maybe #might

There are no rules to writing a song. ↗

— Randy Castillo

#song #writing

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#absorb #best #porous #ready #solution