“Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.” WorldGivingWritingHeartLittlesLightBlackFiguresBlowShockingPrettiestShocking Things Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.” WritingBlackWhiteInfiniteShadeBlack And WhiteGreyShades Of Grey Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.” WritingIdeasEndsCharacterFormOrderFightingBlackWaterImaginationMemoriesFireBattleShapesPaperLaborLogicSightArmyMetaphorSpreadRageMarchFlagsMagnificentInkLegendaryPowderWagonsArtilleryCavalry Author:Honore de Balzac
“The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.” NeedsWritingStatesBlackWhiteUnitedUnited StatesWrittenIndianAsianLatinoCaribbean Author:Carlos Fuentes
“I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.” KnowsWritingLittlesKidsEasyStuffBlackFarmsGrandfatherLittle KidSpidersMy GrandfatherWidowsBoyhoodBlack Widow Author:Kary Mullis
“I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.” PeopleWantWritingBlackLandHanging OutFarmsColonyCarolinaAcresNorth CarolinaCabinsAll BlackTractorsNudists Author:Zach Galifianakis
“When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.” ShouldWritingBlackAngryGet AwayAutobiographyBlack Women Author:Alessandra Stanley
“A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two months before the Sarin attack in the Japanese subway. There are very weird coincidences out there. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write, because of my fear someone will carry it out.” WorldWayWritingHas BeensTwoBookWarBlackMonthsCrossesWar Of The WorldsGasPlotWorld War IiWorld War ICoincidenceThrillersSubwayTwo Months Author:Greg Iles