I am a lion, hear me roar

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"I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye."

Nick Carraway in Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (via yeahwriters)

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"You must be able to step inside your character’s skin and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into. I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: “No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep."

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"All right,’ said Susan. ‘I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”
“REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE”
‘Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little- “
“YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES”
‘So we can believe the big ones?”
“YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING”
‘They’re not the same at all!”
“YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET— “
Death waved a hand. “AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME… SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED”
‘Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—-“
“MY POINT EXACTLY”."

Terry Pratchett - Hogfather

Does anyone else have this fear that people (who don’t read Discworld/Hogfather) look past how awesome this quote is and just see Terry Pratchett having a caps lock moment?

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"Your story might be firing on one cylinder, when really, it needs to fire on three: the goals of the protagonist and the conflicts that work against him must cross three axes: physical, emotional, philosophical.
Physical: “I am in danger of being eaten alive by a starving were-badger.”
Emotional: “But the starving were-badger is my true love, Betty McGoohan.”
Philosophical: “If I cannot reconcile this and the story demands I slay my true love, then love cannot succeed in the face of evil and I am forced to accede to a cynical worldview in which monstrousness is ascendant and all my victories are Pyrrhic and were-badgers are neither cuddly nor sexy.”
Harness all three axes for powerful story-combo power-up extra-life ding."

Chuck Wendig (via writingquotes)

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garfieldminusgarfield:

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fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment:

idonethis:

The hilariously creative John Cleese shares how interruptions and busyness are the biggest barriers standing in the way of innovation.

If you get into the right mood, then your mode of thinking will become much more creative. But if you’re racing around all day ticking things off your list, looking at your watch, making phone calls, and generally just keeping all the balls in the air, you are not going to have any creative ideas.

His solution? Make boundaries of space and time.

Thought you all might find this useful. ~~And who doesn’t love John Cleese?~~

- Pen

#creativity #inspiration #motivation #john cleese #video #talk

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A map showing the 22 countries that Great Britain has not invaded [825x412]
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"The advice I continually give to young writers is this, “Learn to paint pictures with words.” Not just once upon a time, but … In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms … See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it."

Brian Jacques (via writingquotes)

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"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry."

- Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time (via scared-of-clouds)

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"If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you’re more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can’t know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters."

Lynda Barry (via writingquotes)

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mr-dalliard-ive-gone-peculiar:

Happy Birthday Sir Terry Pratchett! (28th April 1948)

You are such a wonderful and genuine person, your books have brought so much laughter, joy and comfort. A true inspiration.

Terry’s cameos in the TV adaptions of three of his books: Hogfather, Colour of Magic, and Going Postal.

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#terry pratchett #discworld

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"Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits."

Dave Eggers (via writingquotes)

#writing #writer #quote #motivation #dave eggers

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