#rite

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse. ↗

— Mark Twain

#determination #horse #perseverance #spirited #perseverance

What does he mean," I asked, "the humanistic values implicit in the physical sciences?" "You ask him," my father said. "Maybe he knows. Maybe down deep in the atom there's a little man sitting in a rocking chair reading the evening paper. ↗

— John Updike

#writer #science

My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to? ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#life-and-living #life-story #loneliness #solitude #story

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#life #music #musician #singer #songwriter

The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#experience

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#writer

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#writer

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#writing #writer

Jika ingin menjadi seorang penulis pertama sekali kena membaca, kedua kena membaca, ketiga, membaca, keempat membaca dan kelima baru menulis. ↗

— A. Samad Said

#writer-quotes #writer

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#story-telling #storytelling #writer