#writing

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer. ↗

— James Salter

#living #writing #life

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writer-s-block #writing #life

Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING ↗

— Rayne Hall

#writing #writing-life #writing-process #life

I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy. ↗

— Rayne Hall

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Writers are the wind that sail words across the page. ↗

— Laurie Buchanan

#writing #writing-life #life

You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through. ↗

— Paula McLain

#life #writing #life

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits ↗

— John Geddes

#self #self-awareness #the-heart #the-soul #the-spirit

Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#life #life-and-living #literature #world #life

Writing is a way of facing life. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#writing #life

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#life