#write

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself). ↗

— Roland Barthes

#writing #science

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#children #difficult #grown-ups #write #writers

To a young heart everything is fun. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#fun

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#advice #either #else #give #kind

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#character #cornelia-funke #existentialism #words #writers

Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that? ↗

— Félix J. Palma

#dreams #jobs #writers #writing #dreams

I fix the cramped, lined pages with my curious stare. How do you come to exist? ↗

— Kiera Woodhull

#imagination #insomnia #writer #writing #dreams

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined. ↗

— Charles Nodier

#fantastic #fantasy #genre #horror #supernatural

he best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species. ↗

— Machado de Assis

#creativity #literature #novels #writers #writing

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society. ↗

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

#writing #writing-life #art