#writing

Today I will find something beautiful. Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree. The dove resting near the lemon buds. Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth. Smiling on me. "Creating" in BREATHE IN ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#goals #gratitude #inspirational-quotes #writing-process #beauty

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#life-experience #writing #art

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there. ↗

— Paul Auster

#business

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#creativity #literature #writing #art

They paid people to write books!!! Until that moment I had a vague idea that books were produced in factories, like tires, or else they grew on trees, like money. ↗

— Gary Reilly

#writing #money

A worthy quote makes you think A good quote states more than the obvious An excellent quote removes doubt A great quote teaches you something A genius quote changes your mind. ↗

— T. Crossley

#writing #change

I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#writing #motivational

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#on-writing #motivational

I felt like poisoning a monk. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#writing #motivational

where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside. ↗