#raf

I’ve been held down like a piece of meat while monsters disguised as men violated me again & again. ↗

— Gladys Lawson

#sex-trafficking #men

But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#writing-craft #inspirational

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim. ↗

— Stephen Root

#bent #character #comedy #crafty #dim

Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#create-your-future #define-your-future #fate #future #inspirational

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie.... ↗

— Mary Shelley

#on-writing-frankenstein #writing-craft #imagination

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page. ↗

— Janet Burroway

#writing #writing-craft #inspirational

I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book. ↗

— Beth Revis

#debut-author #first-drafts #inspiration #persistence #publishing

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. ↗

— Mark Twain

#huck-finn #loveliness #raft #self-worth #stars

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#writing-craft #business

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. ↗

— James Houston

#build #carve #cross #daily #granted