Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~ William Faulkner
Words Are Events
Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and…
Out with Lanterns
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. ~ Emily Dickinson
Terpsichorean
Terpsichorean. ADJECTIVE: relating to dancing
While You’re Doing The Dishes
The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. ~ Agatha Christie
Writers Need Persistence
If there’s any single talent a writer needs, it’s persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell. ~ Octavia Butler
“Fool,” said my Muse
“Fool,” said my Muse. “Look in thy heart and write.” ~ Sir Philip Sidney
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
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I happen to believe every story is a love story if you catch it at the right moment, slantwise in the light of dusk.
Listen To Poets
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. ~ Jonas Mekas
If You Don’t Imagine Nothing Happens
If you don’t imagine nothing ever happens at all. ~ John Green