End of Nights

Who we are and for that matter who we will be, are but dreams within a dream.

[endofnights]

[theparisreview]

Let’s face it, writing is hell.

William Styron, The Art of Fiction No. 5 (via theparisreview)

[poetsandwriters]

I think you’re supposed to work in the dark, that the search and the writing itself is the reward.

Louise Erdrich, in conversation with Rebecca Makkai (Chicago Review of Books, 2016)

[theparisreview]

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination.

William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12 (via theparisreview)

[theparisreview]

The idea is to perceive your invention as a reality that can be understood as a dream.

Philip Roth, The Art of Fiction No. 84 (via theparisreview)

[quotethat]

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via quotethat)

[theparisreview]

We need to play out our fears within the safe confines of the imaginary, as a form of hopeful exorcism.

Ian McEwan, The Art of Fiction No. 173 (via theparisreview)

[theparisreview]

I see I am getting away from the question, but the question was not very interesting.

Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21 (via theparisreview)

[quotethat]

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Boris Pasternak (via quotethat)

[critroleooc-blog]

You don’t know how hard it is to be a chromatic dragon in a metallic world!

Tiberius (via critroleooc)

[theredpillpusha]

He’s said this to me in so many ways, and with no words at all. #Runi #LOVE

[coppervalentines]

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Runi (via coppervalentines)

[luz-hdz]

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[dreamingandstudying-deactivated]

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Rumi  (via dreamingandstudying)

[twinflames-at-twilight]

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[fyp-philosophy]

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil  (via quotethat)