Quote from Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
Quote from Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf Read More »
writers
Quote from Nelson Algren, Entrapment and Other Writings
For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn’t tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. …It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can’t give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation can. All the classics, read and re-read, can’t help you catch the ring of truth as does the word heard first-hand.
Quote from Nelson Algren, Entrapment and Other Writings Read More »
Quote from Red Haircrow
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.
Quote from Red Haircrow Read More »
Quote from Vicktor Alexander
Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well.
Quote from Vicktor Alexander Read More »
Quote from Jacob Nordby, Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to live your best life now
Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
Quote from Erin Bow
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.
Quote from Erin Bow Read More »