Writing / Creativity

This is the best essay on writing I've ever read, and I'm afraid it's not close

Kafka understood the human soul too well.

The Magic of Writing Like No One Will Ever Read It ✍🏻✨

I didn’t expect The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis to hit so hard.

This might be one of the best descriptions of the film writing process I’ve ever come across, and it was written by James Cameron.

Hunter S. Thompson, aged 21, in a letter to his friend

this is the mentality

Joseph Campbell, when asked for his ultimate piece of advice

Dostoevsky, after losing his first child—his pain is in every word.

This is an underrated book. More people should read it.

Dostoyevsky on the weight of unfulfilled dreams

C.S. Lewis on how to become a better writer

“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character. 

Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”

— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang

@Dostoevskyquot The follow up to that letter

The Secret to Good Writing 👀✨ — #shorts

“The motive for metaphor … is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside it, because the only genuine joy you can have is in those rare moments when you feel that although we may know in part, … we are also a part of what we know.”

Dostoevsky on losing his first child. This one hits deep.

One of the things great stories remind us of is that you should never ignore side quests, because that's how all main quests begin

To sin is a human affair, but to justify sins is a demonic affair.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“Facility with metaphor … alone is a sign of natural ability, and something one can never learn from another: for the successful use of metaphor entails the perception of similarities.”

—Aristotle, Poetics (Stephen Halliwell tr.)