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#writing

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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. ↗


— Steven Pressfield


#work #writing #art

Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm. ↗


— David Nicholls


#funny #stationary #writer #writing #written-word

Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word ↗


— Ann Simpson


#readers-and-writers #writing-life #love

Literary style is like crystal-ware: the cleaner the wineglass, the brighter the brilliance. As a reader, I agree with those who believe that a colour of the dress, which a character has on, as well as any enumeration and description of dishes at dinner or in the kitchen should be mentioned only in case if all this has a strong consequent relation to the plot, but as an author, I can’t help mentioning all this, with no particular reason, just for love for my characters, desiring to give them something nice and pleasant. Melancholy grows a platinum rose. Affection grows a double rose. ↗


— Lara Biyuts


#creative-writing #literature #love

Something about stringing words together until you get them right is magical; that something is why I love to write. ↗


— Paul Keene


#love

For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it’ll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing. ↗


— Robin McKinely


#writing-life #inspirational

A sense of mission lost in ink's jagged outcrops. I was trying to tell myself what I must have known before in a form I wouldn't recognize at first. ↗


— Rae Armantrout


#recognition #writing #life

Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out. ↗


— Caro Clarke


#life

Genetic code is a divine writing. ↗


— Toba Beta


#creation #divine #dna #genetic #god

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. ↗


— Manuel Rivas


#writing #life






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