People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
—Alan Moore (via nathanielstuart)
(via booklover)
(Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. via inspiration)
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
—Robertson Davies (via pithia)
(via fuckyeahreading)
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely
—Roald Dahl, The Twits (via 12mocking-jays)
(Source: soiranawaytowonderland, via fuckyeahreading)
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
—Oscar Wilde (via quote-book)
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader. If the writer has that urge, he may sometimes, but by no means always, find the way to do it. You must perceive the excellence that makes a good story good or the errors that makes a bad story. For a bad story is only an ineffective story.
The only people who see the whole picture,” he murmured, “are the ones who step out of the frame.
—Salman Rushdie (via amandaonwriting)
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