#writing

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. ↗

— Amy Bloom

#love

Ah, I do so love this charmingly rustic, elvin kingdom!-Baozhai ↗

— Mar Mai

#dragon #dragons #fun #the-dragon-tutor #writing

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writing-craft #life

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fiction #writers #writing #love

Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it. ↗

— Lana Axe

#love

Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain. ↗

— Peter Brooks

#men #sexuality #storytellers #women #writers

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#evil #fiction #grace #on-fiction #storytelling

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗

— Russell Banks

#american #art #classics #early #early age

The thing I write will be the thing I write. ↗

— Steve Shilstone

#quote #writing #baseball

With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.
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— Jarod Kintz

#impact #write #writers #writing #career