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A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write. ↗

— Joan Jett

#i write #lot #recorded #songs #write

Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing. ↗

— Steven Lake

#power #writers #life

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writing-life #life

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #life

The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there’s arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#quarter-life-crisis #success #twenties #writing #life

For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one goes on writing purely out of habit, or a craving for admiration, or because one knows not how to do anything other, or out of sheer wonderment, despair or outrage, any more than one could say whether writing renders one more perceptive or more insane. Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life? ↗

— W.G. Sebald

#life #meaning #understanding #work #writing

Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work! ↗

— Delia J. Colvin

#paranormal-romance #the-sibylline-oracle #the-symbolon #writing-life #life

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away. ↗

— Terry Brooks

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If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line. ↗

— Baby Halder

#bengali #india #memoir #women #women-writers

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#writing-craft #writing-life #life