#ding

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. ↗

— Terri Windling

#editing #editor #inspirational #reading #writing

Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you---how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two people talking. A tree shook; an electric light danced; the tone of the talk was comic, but also tragic; a whole vision, an entire conception, seemed contained in that moment. But when you attempt to reconstruct it in words, you will find that it breaks into a thousand conflicting impressions. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#reading #writing #inspirational

Lügen schmerzen, die Wahrheit jedoch bewegt uns. ↗

— Cody McFadyen

#inspirational #reading #inspirational

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ↗

— Marie Curie

#understanding #life

Time creates Let time work at your projects. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#decision-inspirational #decision-making #fulfilling-life #happiness #projects

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#collecting #reading #life

No importa si no te entienden, lo que importa es que tengas el valor de decirlo. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#inspirational #talk #understanding #inspirational

The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#character-building #inner-guidance #inspiration #self-worth #wisdom

I see no priestly garments on you. There is no ephod on your belt. You presume to speak for Yahweh? You speak his name aloud so lightly? ↗

— Cliff Graham

#social-challenge #spiritual-standing #inspirational

Melancholy isn’t a sign of the book’s end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading’s muse. ↗

— Andrew Piper

#reading #inspirational