#writing

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors. ↗

— Vincent H. O'Neil

#directing #mystery #playwriting #theater #writing

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters. ↗

— T.L. Rese

#rejection #writing-life #death

We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#letters #love #love-at-first-sight #power-of-words #writing

Why Dream? Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to accomplish great and small things each day. These daily activities take enormous amounts of energy. Most things are out of our control. We are surrounded by danger, frustration, grief, and insanity as well as love, hope, ecstasy, and wonder. Being fully human is an exercise in humility, suffering, grace, and great humor. Things and people all around us die, get broken, or are lost. There is no safety or guarantees. The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#creativity #dreaming #procrastination #writing #art

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#magic #neil-gaiman #words #writing #dreams

I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#dreams

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them. ↗

— Walter Farley

#authors #be-yourself #enjoy-life #follow-your-dreams #inspirational

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#intellectual-freedom #women #writing #dreams

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. ↗

— Sharon M. Draper

#reading #writing #dreams

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#able #bills #doctor #handwriting #his