#writing

How had it come about that these particular designs were chosen as our letters? Who decreed what sound would accompany each shape? And how was it decided the manner they would come together to form a word? 'Why is this so?' I demanded to know. ↗

— Theresa Breslin

#inquisition #learning #matteo #reading #sinistro-scribe

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#writers-on-writing #design

MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny. ↗

— John Rember

#creative-writing #writing #writing-books #writing-life #courage

Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#writers #writing #art

So I wonder what it is this need to tell. To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling. ↗

— Peter Heller

#beauty

And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining. ↗

— Chris Howard

#prose #beauty

A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you. ↗

— Neil Leckman

#beauty

Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful. ↗

— Amy Joy

#wordsmithing #writing #beauty

To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind. ↗

— Kaela Marooney

#essence #inspirational #original #reading #writing

The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#chilling #imagery #personification #beauty