Writing
quotes and inspiration on writing
Writing
"A well-fed man keeps and calmly gives forth his infinitesimal portion of eternity. It sounds big in the summer night. And it is, as it always was down the ages, when there was a man with something to tell, and ones, quiet and wise, to listen." - Ray Bradbury
"When did you last read a book of poetry or take time, of an afternoon, for an essay or two?" - Ray Bradbury
"The ideas will follow me. When they’re off-guard, and ready to be born, I’ll turn around and grab them." - Ray Bradbury
"For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms." - Ray Bradbury
The physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.
Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
"By living well, by observing as you live, by reading well and observing as you read, you have fed Your Most Original Self. " - Ray Bradbury
To Read: Aldous Huxley’s “The Education of an Amphibian”
"‘Well it so happens that you of all people know almost exactly what it’s like – to be a writer. You’re in your early-middle teens. The age when you come into a new level of self-awareness. Or a new level of self-communion. It’s as if you hear a voice, which is you but doesn’t sound like you. Not quite – it isn’t what you’ve been used to, it sounds... See more
Inside Story: A Novel
To Read: Dorothea Brande’s Becoming A Writer