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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f1d00c0 | Style requires digesting who we are. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 839ea72 | Writing... is 90 percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you...You don't only listen to the person speaking to you across the table, but simultaneously listen to the air, the chair, and the door. And go beyond the door. Take in the sound of the season, the sound of the color coming in through the windows. Listen to the past, future, and present right where you ar.. | writing-life | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 8ae0f3c | 14294Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God. You actually become larger than yourself and first thoughts are present. | Natalie Goldberg (Author) | ||
| a575221 | Let some of the good writing go. Don't worry. There'll be lots of it over time. You can't use all of it. Be generous and allow some of it to lie fallow. What a relief! We can write well and let it go. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| fe281a2 | Understanding engenders care. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 7a5427f | I had to get slow and dumb (not take anything for granted) and watch and see how everything connects, how you contact your thoughts and lay them down on paper. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| f75215d | And what great writers actually pass on is not so much their words, but they hand on their breath at their moments of inspiration. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| e628225 | It is our hope that writing releases us. Instead maybe it deepens the echo. We call out to our past and the call comes back. We are alone--and not alone. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 911cffd | We learn writing by doing it. That simple. We don't learn by going outside ourselves to authorities we think know about it. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 53efa46 | Give me your morning. Breakfast, waking up, walking to the bus stop. Be as specific as possible. Slow down in your mind and go over the details of the morning. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 6139eac | If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you." --Natalie Goldberg" | Laurie A. Helgoe | ||
| 5063da3 | Failure is a hard word for people to take. Use the word kindness then instead. Let yourself be kind. And this kindness comes from an understanding of what it is to be a human being. Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure--just a big field to wander in. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 0da2f34 | The joke Colombians told was that God had made their land so beautiful, so rich in every natural way, that it was unfair to the rest of the world; He had evened the score by populating it with the most evil race of men. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 1f7fc6b | Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 2673693 | I'm not a ranger, I'm a pilot. | Mark Bowden | ||
| e896193 | Okay," I finally said. "Can we all agree that this is maybe the most screwed-up situation we've ever found ourselves in?" "Agreed," they said in unison. "Awesome." I gave a little nod. "And do either of you have any idea what we should do about it?" "Well, we can't use magic," Archer said. "And if we try to leave, we get eaten by Monster Fog," Jenna added. "Right. So no plans at all, then?" Jenna frowned. "Other than rocking in the fetal po.. | Rachel Hawkins | ||
| 48caec3 | Was it a threat, or a well-meant warning? | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 997a249 | Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You can't undo yesterday's journey. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f281ede | My first time in Madagascar was awesome because lemurs are kind of funny; they throw fruit at the back of your head when you're not looking and then point at one another when you turn around. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 344b10a | That was the attraction of the sirens: not promises of power or riches, but bewildering, tantalizing prophecies that made men leap from their ships to go ask the crazy bitches what the fuck they were talking about. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0885122 | Filled with a new sense of purpose, I downed half my coffee at one draught. It was good, strong stuff, the kind that Louis L'Amour used to say could float a horseshoe. Nobody ever drank weak coffee in his books. It was probably why they were so anxious to shoot people at high noon. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e89f10d | Oberon's been kidnapped along with one of the werewolves, and that's why we're all so upset. We'll talk more tomorrow, and I promise to answer all your questions if I survive the night," I said. The widow's eyebrows raised. "Ye've got all these nasty pooches to run around with and ye still might die?" "I'm going to go fight with a god, some demons, and a coven of witches who all want to kill me," I said, "so it's a distinct possibility." .. | magic widow wolfhound witch werewolf irish | Kevin Hearne | |
| d298f4a | All right. I do not think she will attack, though. She is a nice inhuman." "You mean nonhuman. Inhuman is an adjective," I said, as I rose from the lawn and padded softly around the left side of the house to the backyard. "Hey, I'm not a native speaker. Give me a break." | oberon | kevin hearne | |
| 3671340 | Now, I will be the first to admit that human life was not worth much to my generation in the Iron Age, but Flidais and her kind are forever rooted in Bronze Age morality, which goes something like this: If it pleases me, then it is good and I want more; If it displeases me, then it must be destroyed as soon as possible, but preferably in a way that enhances my reputation so that I can achieve immortality in the songs of bards. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 48aa9cb | I don't speak Otter, ya dumbass. What are ya waitin' for? Get over here so we can get back to the rez. Unless I'm talkin' to a real otter, in which case I'm the dumbass and you can just stay over there." I" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 752ca1b | gibbering case of Oh, Shit! I believe that's a bona fide psychological term; if it isn't, it should be. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7574fc9 | Aside from cutting off her head, though, I didn't really mean to kill her." Granuaile laughed. "You know I'm on your side, but to an objective listener, that sounds like a less than convincing argument." | funny olympians | Kevin Hearne | |
| 07f59cf | Cry hamhock and let slip the hogs of war!" - Oberon" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4e890ff | If you tell me I have to talk like an illiterate halfwit to fit into this society, I will punch you. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 932615d | The mixed woods of Germany were the sort that deserved a good savoring--no, a savouring, with a British u in there for the sake of decadence, as colours are somehow more vibrant to me than mere colors. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 9e3f23a | But in doing so---moving forward...---he's still dealing with the past. It's always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn't matter if we flushed it down; Everyone still knows what we did there. So its fine to say it's all done and you have no connection with the past, that you're a new person every second, but si.. | past humor philosophy | Kevin Hearne | |
| a55c0de | Revenge and rational thought never sleep together. | revenge thought | Kevin Hearne | |
| c39c943 | But even a stopped clock is right twice a day. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f14eed7 | You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 1f2b0c9 | When in doubt, know your way out, I always say." "I thought you always said, 'When in doubt, blame the dark elves.'" "Well, yeah, that too." " | funny druid elves lunch food | Kevin Hearne | |
| e2c0fb5 | What I should be doing was the same thing everyone should be doing: enjoying the blessings I have while I have them, instead of worrying that one day they will be gone. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| be47f7c | Frank Herbert said that Fear is the mind-killer. He was a wise man. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a6ccc92 | Our minds are all that defend us from the horror of the void. The majority of the time we simply think about something--anything--else, and that itself is an act of defiance against the vast nothing of the universe. But minds break down and stop thinking sometimes. They feel instead: A looping, gnawing monster eats away confidence and goals and even a sense of duty until we are in a dry bleak place of ennui, unable to focus on the minutiae .. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ea2f896 | That would be me," I said. "Good afternoon, gentlemen. Is this a joke?" "I beg your pardon?" the older fellow inquired politely, a faint smile on his narrow face. He sounded like an English butler. "You know, a tall priest and a short rabbi walk into a pagan bookstore ..." "What?" He looked down at his companion, seeming to realize for the first time that he was quite a bit shorter and in fact of a different religious order than he. "Oh, gr.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a94ace9 | Now, I know I am not a craftsmen... but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang of our consumption and the doorway to beauty that we all want to walk through. Creating is how I tell the world I love it." ~ Atticus" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a30697c | Helgarson won't tell me, but it must have been bad. His fangs pop out if you just say 'Thor' aloud, and he hunts carpenters simply because they use hammers. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 10853c2 | You can't put your fist through a man's wood and expect him to forgive and forget. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b8b4ced | The wind and the grass and something in the sky, sun, or moon, shining on our backs as we run: They are gifts that humans toss away like socks on Christmas morning, because we see them every day and don't think of them as gifts anymore. But new socks are always better than old socks. And the wind and grass and sky, I think, are better seen with new eyes than jaded ones. I hope my eyes will never grow old. | earth nature youth beauty gifts | Kevin Hearne | |
| 83383f3 | if someone saves you from a potentially life-threatening fight, you owe them booze. It's a rule that transcends time and cultures. | Kevin Hearne |