"Everybody tells you that to be a writer, you have to read and write a lot. That’s true. But it’s not all of it. That’ll get you to understand the technical side. It’ll help you grasp the way a story is built. But that doesn’t put meat on the bones you arrange. For that, you need everything but reading and writing. Go live. Travel. Ride a bike. Eat weird food. Experience things. Otherwise, what the fuck are you going to talk about?"
— Chuck Wendig (via writingquotes)
“It’s not much, but it’s home.”
“I think it’s brilliant.”
The Weasleys’ clock says “Dentist,” but when Hermione tells people her parents are dentists no one knows what that is
(Source: confundoh, via sapphicreader)
"I know so many last words. But I will never know hers."
—
John Green, Looking for Alaska
(via bookmania)
"He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he could write anything. Often the question threw itself at him when he was least expecting it. You have four hours every morning, the statement would rise like a menacing wraith. You have time to write many thousands of words. Why don’t you? And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws."
— Richard Matheson (via writingquotes)
Shout out to any bibliophile out there who is currently having trouble reading, for any reason.
You’re still a bibliophile. Never worry about that.
(via sapphicreader)
"When a writer first begins to write, he or she feels the same
first thrill of achievement that the young gambler or oboe
player feels: winning a little, losing some, the gambler sees the
glorious possibilities, exactly as the young oboist feels an indescribable
thrill when he gets a few phrases to sound like real
music, phrases implying an infinite possibility for satisfaction
and self-expression. As long as the gambler or oboist is only
playing at being a gambler or oboist, everything seems possible.
But when the day comes that he sets his mind on becoming a professional, suddenly he realizes how much there is to learn, how little he knows."
first thrill of achievement that the young gambler or oboe
player feels: winning a little, losing some, the gambler sees the
glorious possibilities, exactly as the young oboist feels an indescribable
thrill when he gets a few phrases to sound like real
music, phrases implying an infinite possibility for satisfaction
and self-expression. As long as the gambler or oboist is only
playing at being a gambler or oboist, everything seems possible.
But when the day comes that he sets his mind on becoming a professional, suddenly he realizes how much there is to learn, how little he knows."
— John Gardner (via writingquotes)
i will be forever grateful that of all the deaths in Harry Potter, Professor McGonagall was not one of them.
(Source: storiesandskies-deactivated, via sapphicreader)
"The beauty of things must be…that they end."
— Jack Kerouac,Tristessa (via booksandahotbeverage)
(Source: wordsnquotes.com, via libraryshelves)
"The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It’s a bridge you have to build all by yourself, all alone, all through the night, while the world goes about its business without giving a damn. The only way of making this perilous passage is by looking at it as a pilgrimage."
— Shatrujeet Nath (via writingquotes)
"I want to do good in the world not just by sitting at my desk writing…. I devoutly believe old men should be explorers. I want to see different geographies, meet different people and who knows what effect that might have on my own poetry. If I were to stay here in an unchanging lifestyle… I might have nothing to write about."
— Sir Andrew Motion, quoting Four Quartets: “Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter / We must be still and still moving / Into another intensity” (via robertogreco)
(Source: independent.co.uk, via austinkleon)
