9The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Albert Camus (via teen-writers)
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
Rod Serling (via therealkdgreen)
(Source: ilivetowriteandinspire)
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
