“The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”

- Tennessee Williams

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Writes author Mira Grant: "Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called 'natural world'. Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rates, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really."

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"We don’t know who we are until we can tell a story about ourselves. Stories help us understand we are not alone."

- Alice Wong in an interview with Nicola Griffith https://nicolagriffith.com/2025/11/16/alice-wong/ #WritingCommunity #WritingQuote #disability #CripLit

I have not fathomed why I write or why I write what I do, but I was grateful to do what I love and can do well; it became my vocation. Mesmerized by something magnetic and magical, I followed a breadcrumb here and a shiny pebble there searching and wandering for a mythical world that might await at the end of the road. It led to a lifetime of research chasing down mesmerizing stories and writing them down.

- Jeong Byeong-jun, author's foreword to Kim Gyu-sik and His Age, via SisaIN Vol. 939 of September 16, 2025 #history #quote #WritingQuote #translation

#Poetry can arise only from the consistent, urgent pull of the heart fearing for the land and feeling deeply for the people, the inability to turn away from the ache of compassion. No poem written merely in the writer's self-interest is worth being called such.

- #Dasan Jeong Yakyong, 18-19th century Korean thinker, writer, and poet #WritingQuote #CreativeQuotes

Words are my matter. I have chipped one stone
for thirty years and still it is not done,
that image of the thing I cannot see.

- #UrsulaKLeGuin, The Mind is Still (1977) #CreativeQuotes #WritingQuote #poetry

Says author Dan Brown: "...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means 'hidden' or 'obscured'. In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdmoctrinal had to be kept hidden or 'occult', and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything 'occult' as evil, and the prejudice survived." 🧵⬇️

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Poet Anne Waldman says: "I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a Time Machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show."

Write your own show; join us for Writing the Occult: Relics on 10 May.

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Stephen King says: "I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off Bermuda, great walls and things of that sort. This seems to indicate that there were races and cultures that went before us. And to me, that's an unsettling idea." 🧵⬇️

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