#writing

At the last moment, Antoinette came out of her faint and shouted one word to her child. That word, reader, was adieu... Adieu is the French word for farewell. “Farewell” is not the word you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by two oversize mice in black hoods... “Farewell” is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#inspirational #writing-from-the-heart #inspirational

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#writing #writing-advice #marriage

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this. [Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#author-quotes #creative-process #earning-a-living #gift #humor

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg. ↗

— David Leavitt

#writing #marriage

The perfect marriage, like the perfect body, is mythical. I never met a woman who's said she has the perfect marriage or the perfect body...There's always something lacking. -- Virgin Bride ↗

— Jhoomur Bose

#confessionally-yours #indian-writing #marriage #marriage

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#legends #myths #writing #inspirational

I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap. ↗

— Cassandra Duffy

#writing-humor #writing-life #humor

Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write. ↗

— Robin M. Helm

#on-writing #inspirational

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#life #writing #inspirational

If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps behind as something comes up the hall; we say yes, I agree that clouds often look like other things - fish and unicorns and men on horseback - but they are really only clouds. Even when the lightning flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on. ↗

— Stephen King

#men