patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 23h"A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.” ― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“People who understand everything get no stories.” ― Bertolt Brecht 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.” ― Ezra Pound 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.” ― David Morrell 001
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.” ― Preston Sturges 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.” ― Noel Coward 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"The first step, especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but no money, to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films." Chuck Palahniuk 010
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“When we can't dream any longer we die.” ― Emma Goldman 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.” ― Louis L'Amour, 010
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.” ― Mel Brooks 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.” ― May Sarton 001
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Get black on white.” ― Guy de Maupassant 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.” ― A.S. Byatt, Possession 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable. ” ― Brenda Ueland 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.” ― Simon Van Booy 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time,getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.Kurt Vonnegut 010
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power." Toni Morrison 010
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.” ― Diane Duane 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.” ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” ― Kurt Vonnegut 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” ― Dolly Parton 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." — Confucius 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.” ― Gloria Steinem 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.” ― Paula Vogel 010
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swell from all the words I’ve pressed onto them. It almost feels like the more I bruise the page the quicker something inside me heals.” ― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.” ― François-René de Chateaubriand 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 28/08/2026“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.” ― Jane Yolen 020
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“Never put off writing until you are better at it.” ― Gary Henderson 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 24/08/2026“Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.” ― Anne Sexton 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 20/08/2026“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.” ― John Gregory Dunne 010
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 19/08/2026W.B. Yeats: “The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.” ― John Cheever 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Ray Bradbury: "Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way." 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 14/08/2026“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know well our own darkness can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” Pema Chödrön 010
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 13/08/2026“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising."-- Stephen King 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 12/08/2026“What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.” ― Sandra Brown 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. ” ― Tara Bray Smith 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“There are two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.The truth is that when an author writes for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.” Arthur Schopenhauer 010
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 03/08/2026“When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.” ― Jean Cocteau 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 01/08/2026“A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.” ― Friedrich Dürrenmatt 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 31/07/2026“Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.” ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life 010
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." F. Scott Fitzgerald 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 25/07/2026“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” ― John Waters 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 24/07/2026"That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, but when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep." Raymond Chandler 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 23/07/2026“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” ― George Orwell, Why I Write 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Mrs. Todds my English teacher gives an automatic F if anyone writes "I woke up and it was all a dream." She says it violates the deal between reader and writer, that it's a cop-out, the Boy Who Cried Wolf. But every single morning we really do wake up and it really was all a dream. David Mitchell 010
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 21/07/2026“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to tell them that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well.” Ursula K. Le Guin 010
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 20/07/2026“When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.” ― Isaac Bashevis Singer 000
patverducci.bsky.social @patverducci.bsky.social · 18/07/2026“For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.” ― Eudora Welty, On Writing 010
