This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.
Rebecca SolnitTag: reading books writing writers readers 54
Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.
Christy HallTag: writing write writing-advice writers-on-writing writing-process writers-quotes
I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.
Christy HallTag: imagination life writing writers dreamers writers-on-writing writing-process writers-quotes
I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free.
Christy HallTag: writing write writer writers-on-writing writers-quotes writers-world writers-life
Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.
Christy HallTag: life inspirational writing dreamer writers-on-writing writers-quotes writers-world writers-life
Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.
Christy HallTag: writing writers dreams dreaming dreamers writers-on-writing writers-life
Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.
Christy HallTag: writing writing-craft writing-advice writers-on-writing writing-process
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.
Jorge Luis BorgesTag: writing
I’m sorry if...I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you’re trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever.
Shannon CelebiTag: writing personal sharing writing-life writing-process seven-deadly-sins sharing-life sharing-pain writing-process-writing-advice mr-rogers the-neighborhood-of-make-believe trappped
I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.
Shannon CelebiTag: writing fiction connection feelings writing-life feel fiction-writing writing-process feel-something
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