#raf

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery? ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#church #human-trafficking #slavery #faith

Most—but not all—of the writers I knew then were young men who cherished their independence, were unconcerned about job security, and were serious about their writing. They didn’t want to be anyone’s employee if it interfered with their writing. They were halfway or all the way outside the mainstream and were often not interested in becoming part of the burgeoning corporate society. They had more freedom than your average American. ↗

— Sterling Lord

#writing-process #freedom

When anybody honks at me in traffic, I blush, wave, and shout, “Thanks for being a fan.” Being a celebrity is a 24/7 thing. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#accessible #blush #blushing #celebrity #delusional

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#writing #writing-craft #writing-philosophy #writing-process #imagination

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#writing #imagination

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#genre #imagination #relevance #imagination

Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick—then it’s personal. The bad guy isn’t just the “bad guy” anymore, he’s the BAD GUY! ↗

— Michael J. Sullivan

#humor-inspirational #writing-craft #humor

Inspiration can be a wonderful thing, but it can also be quite fickle ... If you want to be able to call on inspiration reliably then you need to work on it with regularity. Someone once said that if you only go out with a bucket to collect water when it's raining, sometimes you'll get water. But if you go out with your bucket every day, even when it's not raining, sometimes you'll catch unexpected rain. And also, a strange thing may happen: that the very act of going out with your bucket may actually provoke such rain. ↗

— Etienne de L'Amour

#writing-craft #inspirational

You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#writing #writing-craft #writing-life #life

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written. ↗

— Robert Hass

#robert-hass #writing #writing-craft #writing-life #life