#writing

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#motivation #writing #inspirational

Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. ↗

— Donald J. Bingle

#reading #writing #inspirational

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or low you take it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#inspiration #writing #inspirational

Go beyond yourself -- write. ↗

— Pearle Louise Munn Bishop

#writing #inspirational

He comes, he sleeps, he goes. So the plot thickens. ↗

— Shadowlands

#shadowlands #writing #inspirational

There's nothing that isn't worth writing about. If you look closely at your life you'll find plenty to write about there, too. ↗

— Sara Gran

#writing #inspirational

The story world isn't a copy of life as it is. It's life as human beings imagine it could be. It is human life condensed and heightened so that the audience can gain a better understanding of how life itself works. ↗

— John Truby

#imagination

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie.... ↗

— Mary Shelley

#on-writing-frankenstein #writing-craft #imagination

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#writing #inspirational

Nature will forgive humankind just about anything, and what it won’t forgive I hope never to witness. ↗

— Paul Doiron

#forgiveness