#famous author quote

[novlr]

“Because I found life unsatisfactory, I needed to create an imaginary life, an imaginary world, imaginary characters.” — Tennessee Williams

[maihonhassan]

“All language is but a poor translation.”

— 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘻 𝘬𝘢𝘧𝘬𝘢

[sad-eyed-lady-of-the-paperbacks]

Tiny pet peeve of mine is when people attribute a quote that is taken from dialogue simply to the author themselves, without indicating that a character said it, because there’s a massive difference.

Many times characters say something that directly contradicts the author’s own beliefs, and I would be rolling in my grave if anyone created the implication that I myself was the one to say some of the things I’ve written characters saying.

[characterssaythedarnestthings]

"What the hell is a "Zing"??!" - Bram Stoker watching Hotel Transylvania for the first time

[thepersonalquotes]

Your Skin is not a deprivation, your life is not a defeat, the fact that you call yourself black does not mean that your eyes, soul and brain are black try to whiten yourself. If they blackmail you, whitemail yourself.Don't allow people's opinion to pin you down. Build yourself above the standard of slavery.

Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

[lighthousepigeons]

Olive: Come on Adam, I wasn't that drunk!

Adam: You tried to colour my face with a highlighter because you said I was important.

Olive: *tearing up* But you are.

[to-the-waterfalls-of-the-sun]

-V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

Ship in the Stormy Sea, 1887 -Ivan Aivazovsky

[thepersonalwords]

The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

Mylo Carbia, The Raping of Ava DeSantis

[whisperedyearnings]

I opened my mouth , almost said something . Almost .

The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had . But I didn't .

-Khaled Hosseini

[vox-anglosphere]

Fifty years before social media, Robert Frost saw what was coming..

[kassandra-g]

“I would like to sculpt my own soulmate…if not only to know how he will fit against my jaded edges. I would like him to have one of my own eye, brown as a burnished, crimson night. A strand of my black hair so that he may be alight with divine air. One nail from my finger bed, so that he may learn the necessity of reading a fairytale at nightfall in bed. And at last, two beats of my own heart that way with one look of our eyes, who meet in the dark, we may know that love is never an enemy of lark. We shall exist in even the darkest of merriments as I shape you wholly to all that I must be and do that never was done in all the lives we’ve yet to begin.”

_Kassandra Grimme, A Constillation Named Cupid, page 55.

[madokasoratsugu]

love the idea that sherlock and liam get so caught up in each other's worlds when theyre bantering (flirting) sometimes they forget that they are also around equally educated people. sherlock quotes othello and moran mumbles for them to suffocate him while theyre at it. liam turns a forensic observation into a flirt and john quips how that is not scientifically possible. silly things :"))

[maihonhassan]

I really felt it when Rumi wrote:

"Come on sweetheart let’s adore one another before there is no more of you and me."

“Rumi, Fountain of Fire” Burning Gate Press, 1994.

[m-o-o-n-thatspellsblog]

One of my favorite parts of Stephen King's Cell is when the main character, Clay, walks into his new friend Tom's house for the first time and he's like "hmm it smells gay in here"

[yourdreamsaredreamingyouback]

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm. It is easy to be active. Let the reins go and the horses will run away with you. Anyone can do that; but he who can stop the plunging horses is the strong man. Which requires the greater strength, letting go or restraining? the calm man is not the man who is dull. The calm man is the one who has control over the minds waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength; calmness, of superior

Swami Vivekananda

˚✩˚☽Your Dreams are Dreaming you Back✩‧₊˚

[shilawrites]

Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.

-Mark Twain