#writing

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#pretend #richelle #richelle-goodrich #words #writing

To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#richelle #richelle-goodrich #writers #writing #richelle-goodrich

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#short-story

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#irony #language #speech #truth #writing

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#writing-craft #writing-craft

And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will find someone before whom they could be their true self,without any pretensions and get an opportunity to release the pent-up emotions and feel light. ↗

— Chitralekha Paul

#internet #self #writers #writing #internet

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#internet

grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#writing-craft #writing-craft

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#writing-craft #writing-craft

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ↗

— Stephen King

#drugs #writing #writing-craft