I'm All About Them Words

The place for quotes about writing, writers, readers, reading and the wonderful thing we call literature.

[bookgeekconfessions]

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Book Geek Quote #842

(via bookgeekconfessions)

[thewritewire]

Joss Whedon

[afishdrowning]

"Pixar’s 22 Rules to Phenomenal Storytelling" by Emma Coats, storyboard artist for Pixar. Infographic by PBJ Publishing. (x)

[shinji--moon-deactivated2017123]

You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. “Floods” is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place. It is emotional memory — what the nerves and the skin remember as well as how it appeared. And a rush of imagination if is our “flooding.”

Toni Morrison, excerpt from “The Site of Memory,” What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction  (via commovente)

[writerswritecompany]

You’re the only person I’ve ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

Junot Díaz (via amandaonwriting)

A match made in book heaven.

(via swoonreads)

[thebeginningwriter]

[suchalovelybookworld-deactivate]

[neofemsequinedrebellion]

[writingbox]

[theparisreview]

[slightlyignorant]

[scottiecameron]

[literatureloveaffair-blog]

Stories are wild creatures … When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak? 

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

[aseaofquotes]

Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

[nevver]

[quoted-books]

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

[writerswritecompany]

Writing a Novel in 12 Stages