23 Oct 2022
"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
-Anne Herbert
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11 Oct 2022
11 Oct 2022
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
—Stephen King
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6 Oct 2022
30 Sep 2022
Energy: It sounds simple, but going for a walk can really get the juices going again. Engage with nature and appreciate the present moment. It sounds trivial, but some things sound so trivial that people forget to do them, they are powerful!
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24 Sep 2022
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."
-Franz Kakfa
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22 Sep 2022
"Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself."
-Octavia E. Butler
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21 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022
what is your favorite writing tip?
mine is “lean into the weird,” sage advice from the brilliant @tkiramadden.
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20 Sep 2022
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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14 Sep 2022
"Writing is really a way of thinking — not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic, or just sweet."
-Toni Morrison
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12 Sep 2022
"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense."
-Mark Twain
#writing #humor #quotes #writingcommunity #fellswriting
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11 Sep 2022
"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling."
-Madeleine L'Engle
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7 Sep 2022
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7 Sep 2022
"We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
-Ray Bradbury
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4 Sep 2022
"What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you."
-Anne Lamott
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4 Sep 2022
Today's #FellsWritingTip, which we post periodically, is: Take a break. Don't keep banging your head against the wall. Take a walk, take a shower, eat/drink something... your brain needs it.
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3 Sep 2022
"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."
-Brandon Sanderson
#quotes #writing #stories #writingcommunity #fellswriting
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1 Sep 2022
"If we are going to call upon inspiration to guide us through, we have to first begin the work."
-Simon Sarris (@simonsarris)
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28 Aug 2022
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
-Oscar Wilde
#quotes #funny #humor #books #writingcommunity #fellswriting
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27 Aug 2022
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
-Haruki Murakami
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25 Aug 2022
"Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character."
-@DavidCorbett_CA
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23 Aug 2022
"One of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, No. No, I’m finished. Bye. And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it."
-Maya Angelou
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