Read through the most famous quotes by topic #authors
We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised. ↗
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment. ↗
For poetry and I are one To separate is to decapitate For my poetry is forever. ↗
#african-american-authors #inspirational #poetry #inspirational
I love snowflakes simply for the reason that each one is unique; nonidentical to zillions of crystalized counterparts. It's a difficult notion to wrap your brain around, and yet it reminds me that amidst the innumerable stories told throughout the ages, a distinctly new one rests on the tip of an author's pen. ↗
#richelle #richelle-goodrich #snowflakes #stories #uniqueness
I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. ↗