Shantal Shababiさんのイラストまとめ

"As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall." _Virginia Woolf

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"Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself." _Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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"Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven."

Walter Benjamin, One Way Street And Other Writings
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19th-century frontispiece for Emma, engraved by William Greatbatch (based on a painting by George Pickering)

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"Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through." _Henrik Ibsen
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"Setting is the foundation of verisimilitude. Make your readers believe they’re in a real place and you’ve already won half your battle against their disbelief." _K.M. Weiland
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"If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does."_Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (illustrated by John Tenniel) #quote

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme." _Moby Dick, Herman Melville #amreading #ASMSG

"My head is a hive of words that won't settle."_ Virginia Woolf #amwriting

"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold ; they change the world into words." #amwriting #ASMSG #quote