– Barbara Kingsolver, writer
Source: “Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you…”
What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
Lucille Clifton.
via Inspirational Quote # 338 — Today, You Will Write
A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!
~ Pablo de Sarasate
via Inspirational Quote # 531 — Today, You Will Write
A history of the world. Volcanoes erupted. oceans boiled. The universe was in a turmoil Then came the dog.
People think [detective stories] more ingenious than they are—on account of their method and air of method…Where is the ingenuity in unraveling a web which you yourself…have woven for the express purpose of unraveling? —Edgar Allan Poe, in a letter to Philip Pendelton Cooke
via Quote of the Day — Alec Nevala-Lee
Stop asking yourself what you want, what you desire, what interests you. Ask yourself instead: What has been given to me? Ask: What do I have to give back? Then give it.
Cheryl Strayed. Taken from Brave Enough.
via Inspirational Quote # 395 — Today, You Will Write
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”— George Orwell
