Hundreds of Characters

galavantbooks:

Need to keep reminding myself of this…

(via marezie)

"In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there."

John Banville (via therealkdgreen)

(Source: ilivetowriteandinspire, via marezie)

"I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort."

Clarice Lispector (via writerlyconundrums)

"I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them."

Anne Rice (via prosaicthought)

"When you first start writing—and I think it’s true for a lot of beginning writers—you’re scared to death that if you don’t get that sentence right that minute it’s never going to show up again. And it isn’t. But it doesn’t matter—another one will, and it’ll probably be better. And I don’t mind writing badly for a couple of days because I know I can fix it—and fix it again and again and again, and it will be better."

Toni Morrison (via ilivetowriteandinspire)

(Source: amandaonwriting, via chronicwriter)

"You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it."

Jonathan Coe (via writingquotes)

"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I’m always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system."

Flannery O’Connor (via b4heroes)

booksdirect:

“Keep calm and write on.”

(Source: booksdirectonline.com, via chronicwriter)

"i sought myself in sentences; i loved myself only as much as i loved paragraphs and sentences and words."

tim o’brien (via waitingwatching)