Category Archives: Inspiration
Literary Quotes (Part 4)
“The only thing better than the smell of a new book is the smell of an old book, jacked in dust, soaked in memories, waiting to be remembered.” Josh de la Bruere (x)
“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed … No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.” Eugene Field; The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac (via wordpainting)
“I sleep with books.” (via writersflow)
“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn’t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.” Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (via bookmania)
“Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged from puberty, realising that its Mother was right about everything.” Angeline Trevena (via writingbox)
“Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together—just the two of you.” E.B. White (via bookmania)
“End with an image and don’t explain.” Stanley Kunitz (via writingquotes)
“To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.” Emily Dickinson (via bookporn)
“You fail only if you stop writing.” Ray Bradbury (via 1000wordseveryday)
“I felt sorry when I came to the last page. I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“Reading is not a pastime. It’s a part of my life.” (via scuanias)
A Book is a Dream…
Literary Quotes (Part 3)
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.” – Maurice Sendak (via thesmellofoldbooks)
“Words and effort make up only half the Writer’s soul. Magic takes up the rest.” – JournalingJunkie (via journaling-junkie)
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” – Stephen King (via cup-of-letters)
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin (via ohfairies)
“Reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.” – Benedict Cumberbatch
“You become a writer because you need to become a writer – nothing else.” – Grace Paley (via writingquotes)
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.” – Ezra Pound (via bookmania)
“Write to write. Write because you need to write. Write to settle the rage within you. Write with an internal purpose. Write about something or someone that means so much to you, that you don’t care others think.” – Nick Miller (via psych-facts)
“The truth is this: Successful writers don’t have more time than you do. They MAKE time to write.” – S. J. Scott from his book (via bookgeekconfessions)
“Each time you open a book and read it, A tree smiles knowing there’s life after death” – Unknown
Literary Quotes (Part 2)
“The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I’m not being clear, exactly, but don’t you kind of feel what I’m feeling?”
George Saunders (via writersrelief)
‘Sometimes you need to tell, not show’
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“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.”
John Ruskin (via the-bookmark)
“Put the reader first. Invent. And be patient.”
Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and new owner of the Washington Post (source)
“Wanted or not, dreams and exaggerations will run rampant in the daily mind of the creative genius.”
AJB (via journaling-junkie)
“I would rather be known as an average writer or even a pretty bad writer, than not be known as a writer at all.”
Beant (Infiniti)
“I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (via bookmania)
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Mark Twain (via c-oquetry)
“The stories we love best do live in us forever.”
J. K. Rowling (via letstalkguys)
“… The space between daily language and literature is not terribly deep nor wide, but does contain a vital difference – of intent and intensity.”
Mary Oliver, “A Poetry Handbook” (via audiblehush)
Literary Quotes (Part 1)
“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
Meg Cabot (via writingquotes)
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
Maurice Sendak (via bookmania)
“I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it’s a direct passionate response. But when I write, I’m very uncertain whether it’s good enough. That is, of course, the writer’s agony.”
Susan Sontag (via ilivetowriteandinspire)
“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”
Iain Reid (via writingquotes)
“Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a character’s predicament, but never to solve his problems.”
Vivian Vande Velde (via writingquotes)
“A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson (via samswish)
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway (via tumblerete)
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
Franz Kafka (via silencemadenietzschecry)
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via onesunnycloudyday)
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
Louis L’amour (via writers-conflict)
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