#ok

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to. ↗

— Thanhha Lai

#classic #hope #hope-and-despair #insideoutandbackagain #learning

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fantasy-fiction #life #life

To be lost in a million words....I will fly forever ↗

— Susan Fredson-Cole

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture. ↗

— Jessica E. Larsen

#reading-books #writing-books #writing-life #life

We profit little by books we do not enjoy. ↗

— John Lubbock

#reading #life

She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and chocolate stains coloring the phrases. You could never be certain what you would find in a book that has spent time with someone else. As she has rifled through the pages looking for defects, she had discovered an entrance ticket to Giverny, a receipt for thirteen bottles of champagne, a to-do list that included, along with groceries and dry cleaning, the simple reminder, 'buy a gun.' Bits of life tucked like stowaways in between the chapters. Sometimes she couldn't decide which story she was most drawn to. ↗

— Erica Bauermeister

#descriptions #memories #life

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#wall #life

It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her. ↗

— Susan Wiggs

#fairness #life #life-lessons #mystery #life

I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes on a life of it's own. ↗

— Airambooksie

#quotes-about-writing #quotes-for-writers #life

Life was so simple when apples and blackberries were fruit, a tweet was the sound of nature, and facebooks were photo albums ↗

— Carl Henegan

#life #tweet #life