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My Favorite Advice/Quotes from Esteemed Authors

"To write is to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."

-Anaïs Nin

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

-Toni Morrison

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

-Saul Bellow

"You can make anything by writing."

-C.S. Lewis

"You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."

-Annie Proulx

"Writing is its own reward."

-Henry Miller

"Get is down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good."

-William Faulkner

"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have no been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."

-Natalie Goldberg

"It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style."

-P.D. James

"It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way."

-Ernest Hemingway

So I just finished Oathbringer

before i watched the show i deadass thought hannibal was a dentist

he should have been. he could have gone on his crazy monologues and then been like “don’t you think?” while inspecting someone’s teeth and they’d be like mhmnhkhgdjfbhfjrh

Dalinar writing Oathbringer

Jasnah: Uncle, a good scholar always cites their sources, for the benefit of the reader and other scholars.

Dalinar:

Dalinar:

Tube time

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I could actually write an essay defending Frodo Baggins as a character and why he’s an exceptional and profound protagonist, but nothing can sum up my feelings better than this person on pinterest who said, “he is a hero and a polite little dude, what more could you want?”

fictional character: *goes completely apeshit and loses control of their powers after the person they love is threatened*

me:

"being in the military is hard" theres harder things. Like telling my mom she was wrong about something