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But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes «Awww!»
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Some like to sleep. Some like to read late into the night without catching a wink. In a world of dreamers, both are essential.
- A.J.B. “Late Night Bookworms
I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited
My books understand me.
Write an entire monologue with your main character if you have to. Spend a chapter just exploring the life story of an antagonist. They don’t have to be scenes in chronological order. They don’t even have to end up in your book. But they will help you to keep going.
Because you must keep going. Just a little more. You are stubborn. You are exhausted. You are determined. You are a Writer.
- marielubooks, on making it through the dark swamp.
A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Some writers need a while to charge their batteries, and then write their books very rapidly. Some writers write a page or so every day, rain or shine. Some writers run out of steam, and need to do whatever it is they happen to do until they’re ready to write again.
Neil Gaiman
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance. - Carl Sandburg
Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.
- Italo Calvino
Imagination is the highest form of research. - Albert Einstein
When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.
Lemony Snicket
How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you? - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. -- Anaïs Nin
Wonder. Go on and wonder. -The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink. - A.S. Byatt
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
- Natalie Goldberg
"Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying."
—from The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
It’s not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It’s a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.
George R.R. Martin, on being a writer