“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“I am a day dreamer and a night thinker.”
— Unknown
“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
— Ray Bradbury
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable…It means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
— Neil Gaiman (via quotemadness)
It drives me crazy when I think that almost all of Mark Twain's quotes are valid in the present. He was so ahead of his time!
Here we are, in 2020, in quarantine, when we're obviously wishing to be somewhere else and suddenly this post appears, which encourages us to read.
““Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.””
— Mark Twain (via teandcats)
“On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.”
— Jules Renard
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”
— Susan Sontag
I'm just a weird girl who likes to read about history, mythology and feminism.
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