– Donald Harrington (via writersrelief)
"If you are destined to become a writer, you can’t help it. If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn’t have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing."
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"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
– Michel de Montaigne (via writersrelief)
"Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word."
– Julio Cortázar (via writersrelief)
"This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it & the soul of those who read it & lived it & dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down it’s pages, it’s spirit grows & strengthens. In this place, books no longer remembered by anyone, books that are lost in time, live forever, waiting for the day when they will reach a new reader’s hands, a new spirit…"
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón (via writersrelief)
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"Drop a stone in the still pool of your character’s life and watch the ripples."
– Jeff Gerke (via writersrelief)
