#raf

That's the good thing about writing. You don't need any special degree or anything to do it. You just do it. ↗

— Chris Stocking

#writing #writing-craft #writing-process #inspirational

God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a book. For me, there is no more noble a cause and no more honorable a vocation than to say, like Him, I am a writer. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#writing #writing-craft #inspirational

Because the purpose of feminism isn’t to make a particular type of woman. The idea that there are inherently wrong and inherently right “types” of women is what’s screwed feminism for so long — this belief that “we” wouldn’t accept slaggy birds, dim birds, birds that bitch, birds that hire cleaners, birds that stay at home with their kids, birds that have pink Mini Metros with POWERED BY FAIRY DUST! bumper stickers, birds in burkas or birds that like to pretend, in their heads, that they’re married to Zach Braff from Scrubs and that you sometimes have sex in an ambulance while the rest of the cast watch and, latterly, clap. You know what? Feminism will have all of you. What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are. ↗

— Caitlin Moran

#zach-braff #men

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#fiction #writing-craft #men

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#inspirational #speech #writing #inspirational

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