#writing

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters. ↗

— Patricia Hamill

#storytelling #writing #love

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#inspiration #motivation #writing #art

I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers . ↗

— Clive Barker

#dreams #painting #writing #art

The first goal to be able to divide my life between two lovely places, an island off the coast of France and a village surrounded by Spanish mountains has been achieved. ↗

— Anne Weale

#life

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life

To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it. ↗

— David Gerrold

#the-martian-child #writers #writing #writing-life #life

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person. ↗

— Beth Kephart

#words #writing #imagination

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself. ↗

— Anna Kamieńska

#poetry #writing #life

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#life

When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, unappeasable search for love. In one another we will never be lacking. ↗

— Hélène Cixous

#helen-cixous #inspirational #life #love #writing