In love there is truth, and in truth there is peace.
We’re happier when the assholes are villains.
We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.
People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words.
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing but if the writer deliberately aims at truth he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes
The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.
Be the best you.
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insa
Explore your own peace.
Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!
Beauty is a heart with wings.
Love is written by the soul.
I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write.
I write to believe in goodness.
Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.
Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: You were silly like us.
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him--they were part of his road, the infinite range of experience th...
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.