Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus (via genuinerascal)
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Ernest Hemingway (via tiredestprincess)
So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys – to woo women – and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.
John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society (via fawun)
Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.
Joss Whedon (via writingbox)
And damnit, this is why I published my book. I’ll never get rich doing it, but it exists in the real world.
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.
Neil Gaiman (via amygloriouspond)
