There are more atoms in your eye than there are stars in all the galaxies in the known universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (via harmonyoftheworlds)
So maybe this is what the rest of us look like:
The people who ship writing/difficulty and writing/revolution don’t talk to the people who ship writing/entertainment or writing/romance. The writing/money shippers have an uneasy detente with the writing/literature folks in the prose fandom, but almost none of them talk to the poetry people because how could you even? The writing/YA folks have a strong community or are cliquish, depending on who you ask, and everyone knows not to invite the writing/genre people to the same party as writing/literary folks because it just ends up in a shouting match.
Fandom would explain that this is why we can’t have nice things.
Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over The World by Anne Jamison
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote (via miggylol)
I’ve found painting is the best analogy to my writing. I want to write in a way that paints the picture in your minds eye.
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (via wildroses-peonies)