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If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit


Stephen King


#book #inspire #stephen-king #writer #inspirational

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize—too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries.


Kate Zambreno


#women-writers #men

The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.


Katherine Paterson


#inspirational #resources #writers-on-writing #writing #inspirational

A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.


Dermott Hayes


#inspirational

No person writes to win awards.


Mo Yan


#person #win #writes

Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.


Ana Patrick


#inspirational #writers-on-writing #inspirational

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?


Slash Coleman


#inspirational #life #memoir #self-help #stories

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.


Carlos Ruiz Zafón


#inspirational #rites-of-passage #inspirational

Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead.


C. JoyBell C.


#gods #humanism #humanity #hypocrisy #hypocrites

The stories are not made, they are discovered.


Chandan Sharma


#inspirational #literature #writers #inspirational






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