“It is maddness to hate all roses, because you got scratched with one throne”

ーAntoine de Saint-Exupére

{Quotes :Alice Oseman, Radio Silence//R.Arnold}

{Quotes :Alice Oseman, Radio Silence//R.Arnold}

Anaïs Nin, from the short story “Elena”, Delta of Venus (published posthumously in 1977)

ー by @/lilyrainrose on Instagram

“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”

—Elmore Leonard

“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

—Samuel Johnson

“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”

—Peter Handke

“All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.”

—Steve Almond, WD

“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.”

—Enid Bagnold

“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.”

—Hunter S. Thompson

“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill?”

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden