fallon: Open House
You are a writer.
Your greatest asset is your cynicism, your greatest weapon your way with words. You know this. And what you carry is determined by who you are trying to destroy. You carry the same pad of paper, the same trusty steed that is your pen with you everywhere you go - but…
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"We live as we dream. Alone. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no man can ever know. They can see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means."
- Marlow, Heart of Darkness
2 years ago with 2 notes
"I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible."
- Alice Hoffman (via quote-book)
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"In fiction, the spark we’re searching for isn’t reality so much as a conglomeration of words, memories, and imagination…It is the person we might have been, the things we might have done, if we’d been braver or more dramatic or more reckless."
- Dan Chaon (via awritersruminations)
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When I walk down hallways
Expectation
Reality
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"You’ve got to actively work on building that tough outer shell around your creative self. Have a bizarre belief in yourself even in the face of apparent reality."
- Terry Gilliam
2 years ago with 1 note
"Dreams alone won’t get you far."
Via: ashwrites
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
- Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) (via inkstainedqueer) (via wordpainting) (via awritingteacherrevolts)
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