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Plan B: Become a Pirate
Because that's what you do when all else fails
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
(Source: mayflowerinc, via hundredsofcharacters)
(Source: blog.hardgraft.com, via criminalwisdom)
Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death — fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
(Source: yourwritemind, via hundredsofcharacters)
It’s like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don’t care.
(Source: larmoyante)
It’s always a part of my purpose as a storyteller to first create characters that the reader will be anxious for. You can’t be anxious for a character if you don’t care about the character, if you don’t in some way like, respect, or even love the character, or at least have affection for the character. And then, once I’ve established those characters, in whom the reader I hope has some emotional investment, then it’s perversely my job to make as many terrible things happen to those people we like as I can imagine.
(Source: wordpainting)
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, its meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author’s brains out.
(Source: booksandnerds, via hundredsofcharacters)
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page. When people tell me I’ve kept them up all night, I feel like I’ve succeeded.
(Source: writingquotes)
If you become a writer you’ll be trying to describe the ‘thing’ all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of books, one or two sentences, just for a moment, come near to getting it across.
(Source: stillfreetodream, via hundredsofcharacters)
