#writing

If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive--then don't be a writer. ↗

— Graham Swift

#writing-advice #writing-life #life

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it. ↗

— Theodora Goss

#life

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#novels #realism #reality #writers #writing

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be. ↗

— David Levithan

#writing #love

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#love

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#love #moments #nice #poetry #war-all-the-time

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#poetry #writing #love

You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest. ↗