Author has written 64 stories for Re:Zero, Code Geass, Pokémon, Detective Conan/Case Closed, Harry Potter, Elfen Lied, Pandora Hearts, Batman the Animated Series, Puella Magi Madoka Magica/魔法少女まどか★マギカ, Outlaw Star, Naruto, Batman Beyond, Dragon Ball Z, Fullmetal Alchemist, Danny Phantom, Tsubasa Chronicle, Walking Dead, Gundam Wing/AC, Durarara!!/デュラララ!!, Jujutsu Kaisen/呪術廻戦, Higurashi/Umineko series, Earthbound, Familiar of Zero, My Hero Academia/僕のヒーローアカデミア, Black Cat, Anime X-overs, Sword Art Online/ソードアート・オンライン, D.Gray-Man, Gravity Falls, Tokyo Ghoul/東京喰種トーキョーグール, and Undertale. I have fictionpress now: https://www.fictionpress.com/~shinichikudoownsmysoul Still here and alive, gonna update fics this month. Bnha fandom, here I come with a brand new kick ass SI fic. Also, expect updates to twd, re zero (slowly), familiar of zero, pkmn, madoka magica, ph, bnha, and rz fics. SI fic is being updated soon. I will be removing the Saki fic and replacing it with another si fic, and there will be a Fear the Walking Dead drabbles on here, as well. Give a warm welcome to the new si fic when he makes his debut, once I finish the anime, of course. Of course he’ll win, so you’re not crying, right? For now, I’ll drop FTWD drabbles on y’all and go to bed. Merry Christmas! I have an important announcement to make. A lot of strong ideas are here, so I want to recycle my older fics and use them as drabbles. So one of the ones I have refurbished will be instead used as a place for me to put any potential harry-is-whoever there so you all can still read them and enjoy them. this will also allow me to actually focus on releasing my other hp drabbles i've always wanted to do but have been too afraid to do. The second one will be called "dark drabbles/deconstructions", it's a repository for me to do darker fic ideas/and will be more of a misc crossovers section for anything that I wanna do next. So yeah, the HP ideas you guys love WILL continue...just in a misc/harry potter thing. I will also probably put that on ao3 too. I don't care about Rowling, I still want to use the ideas I've gathered here. The problem is I've focused too much on releasing a story on its own and it dies. If I develop a story within a drabble, I bet it will be because it's actually developed well enough to be its own thing. Not all stories will be affected by it, but only a few old, shitty stories will be refurbished. I want this account to be for good, genuinely good fics, so stay tuned. This will be a work in progress, so don't panic when you don't see it done immediately. It's a slow thing. TWD Drabbles will easily be over 100 chapters...and I have every mind for TVD drabbles to be just as long. So you can expect a lot of drabbles to come out from me besides my SI ideas. And yes, some of my drabbles are adoptable, others won't be. Also, I will be heavily editing my old stories, including GOTF, and the Duo fic. update list as of May 2023 @ the anon who recently reviewed my fic, ye, the GW fic is being continued, it’s been: a long cycle of depression/abuse from so called friends, lack of motivation and the start of a job that impacted it. 1. Cotf 3/? 2. SI!Dabi fic, 5/50 Strong ideas. Chapter four coming shortly, more where that came from. 3. fnu chapters 35/60? Sequel will come, it will loosely follow pmd 2. 4. tbcatd chapter 14 5. gros chapter 15 6. Code Geese edits/updates B-rabbit of Zero chapter 11, rewatching Familiar of Zero made me have a stronger urge to continue this ficl The Improbable Truth-at some point. The walking dead drabbles, absolutely. Re Zero drabbles. Forsaken Flames (definitely most active one rn) Code Geese: Lucia of the Redecoration Fukakai no Unmei(ふかかいのうんめい) game of the future The Black Cat and the Diclonius Hijacked Wrath of the Forsaken Grim Reaper of Stardust (finally have some motivation for this) Game of the future (infrequent/hiatus, I just don't have the energy rn because of constant hate on it, sorry guys, I will get back to it.) Info about me: Name: You can just call me Author or Trunks. Gender: I need to say something now. I know I've been going by a female on this website, but though I was born as a female, I do not identify as such, and go by male pronouns. So I am a trans male. He pronouns would be most appreciated. Thank you and I'm sorry for not telling you all. Though I do believe my storytelling ability matters much more than my gender. Location: The United States Favorite Manga: Currently im obsessed with re zero, and so I’m a spider, so what? Disorders: I have autism (high-functioning) so if I sometimes don't make sense/forget some plot point/go out of character during my writing, that would be why. As I am autistic, there are some things I don't get about people. I also have ADHD and bipolar disorder-I'm not taking any drugs except for mania drugs and they're really fucking weird, trust me, that's why Code Geese is so...out there. Like I literally just sit down, type in a flurry and whatever's there is going up. I write my stories how I want to write them. Don’t like, don’t fucking read. OCs, SIs, AUs and crossovers are badass and don’t deserve hate. There is no correct way to write something. Besides, writing is for fun. I try to stick to canon as much as I can. Favorite stories of mine: To be honest, my favorites are obvious. -I don't like coffee. -I don't like coconut. -I love lemons. -I like ham on pineapple pizza. Fight me. -I like Digimon Frontier. -Future Trunks deserved better than Super. (AND HIS HAIR'S PURPLE, NOT BLUE.) -Shinichi should've stayed as Shinichi. Rem deserved better. Satella is best girl. Dabi is best boy. ANIME CHARACTERS I ABSOLUTELY LOVE FAVORITE ANIME CHARACTERS (8/21/23)UPDATED) MALE BLACK CAT: TRAIN HEARTNET, SVEN VOLLFIED BNHA: Izuku Midoriya, Shouto Todoroki, Natsuo Todoroki, Dabi/Touya (LOVE), All Might, Kurogiri, Aizawa, Hanta Sero, Iida Tenya, Denki Kaminari, Stain, CODE GEASS: LELOUCH, GINO, ROLO (MANGA ONLY), MAO, D GRAY MAN: ALLEN AND EVERYONE P MUCH DANGAN RONPA: NAEGI DEATH NOTE: L, SOICHIRO AND MATSUDA AND RYUK DC: SHINICHI, HEIJI, KAITO, HAKUBA DBZ: GOKU, GOHAN, KRILLIN, PICCOLO, YAMCHA, TIEN, PUAR, VEGETA, FUTURE TRUNKS, FUTURE GOHAN, CELL, FRIEZA, DABURA, BARDOCK, CHIBI TRUNKS, GOTEN, ANDROID 13, BOJACK ESC: VAN, FOLKEN, DRYDEN, AND ALLEN. FOZ: GUICHE, FLAME GUY (HE WAS A BADASS AND VERY INTERESTING), FMA: EDWARD, ALPHONSE, ROY, HUGHES, GREED (DON'T LIKE BROTHERHOOD BUT PRIDE IS INTERESTING) GNG: GIN AND EVERYONE EXCEPT SNIPER AND HYENA. GW: HEERO, DUO, QUATRE, TROWA, WUFEI, ZECHS (HE IS AMAZING AND SO NICE), TREIZE HIGURASHI: KEIICHI. HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU DORK, OOISHI, AKASAKA, TOMITAKE, IRIE, SATOSHI MMSF: GEO, OMEGA SIS, CYGNUS (HE'S HILARIOUS SOMEHOW) MAR: GINTA, BABBO, ALVISS, EDWARD, JACK MONSTER: TENMA NARUTO: IRUKA, KAKASHI, ZABUZA, SHIKAMARU, SASUKE, BORUTO, SHINO, RAMEN GUY (HE IS BEST GUY), Kiba, Neji, Kankuro, Killer Bee, Obito, Fugaku, Hashirama, Minato, Madara Nisekoi: Raku NORAGAMI: YATO ONE PIECE: LUFFY, ZORO, KURO, BUGGY, COBY, HELMEPPO, USOPP, YASOPP, SHANKS, MIHAWK, DRAGON, CROCODILE (AMAZING VILLAIN), MR. 1 (HE'S SO BADASS), MR. 2 (HE'S SO FUNNY AND SWEET ALTHOUGH SCARY TOO), SANJI, ACE, BLACKBEARD, WHITEBEARD, RICHIE THE LION (HE WAS PRETTY COOL), THE DOG, CHOPPER, VIVI'S DAD, Charlotte Katakuri, Jinbe, Mohji, Merry, Chef Zeff, Masira, Emporio Ivankov, OS: GENE, JIM, FRED PH: OZ, OSCAR, JACK, ELLIOT, BREAK, REIM, LEO, Arthur, Cheshire Cat RE ZERO: SUBARU, KADOMON, ROM, REINHARD, AL, PUCK, Garfiel, Wilhelm, Julius,LYE, FLOP, VINCENT, Chisha, Cecilus, Eugard SM: TUXEDO MASK, ALAN SL: GOURRY, ZELGADIS TG: , ARIMA, YOSHIMURA, AYATO, MUTSUKI, HIDE, AMON, Yomo, YYH: YUSUKE, KURAMA, HIEI, AND KUWABARA TORADORA: RYUUJI FAVORITE FEMALE ANIME CHARACTERS BLACK CAT: EVE, SAYA MINATSUKI, KYOKO, RINSLET, SEPHIRIA BNHA: INKO,HIMIko, Miruko, Rei Todoroki, Setsuna, Mina Ashido, Nana Shimura, Hana Shimura, OCHAKO, TSUYU, Fuyumi, Itsuka ACSR: MISAKA MIKOTO, SATEN-SAN, THE STRIPPING TEACHER, AND KUROKO CG: NUNNALLY, EUPHEMIA, KALLEN, SHIRLEY, MILLY, CORNELIA, ALICE, NEMO, FEM!MAO, C.c., Anya DR: MUKURO, SAYAKA, KYOKO, Junko, Celeste, Aoi, Sakura Oogami, Mikan Tsumiki, Akane Owari DC: RAN, ERI, HAIBARA, KAZUHA, AOKO, DBZ: BULMA, CHICHI, ZANGYA, ERASA, Android 18, Pan, Videl ELD: LUCY, KANAE, BAKERY LADY, AIKO, NANA, MAYU, Hiromi, Lucy’s mom, Orphanage Girl, ESC: HITOMI, CERENE, Merle, Millerna FOZ: LOUISE (FIC VERSIONS ONLY), CATTELYA, ELEONORE, KIRKE, TABITHA, IRUKUKU, MONTMORENCY, TIFFANIA, Karin, Full Dive: Alicia GW: RELENA, HILDE HIGURASHI: RENA, MION, SHION, SATOKO, RIKA, NATSUMI, HANYUU, Ouka, Oryou, Rumiko Chie MAR: SNOW, DOROTHY MONSTER: EVA AND ANNA Nisekoi: Seishirou Tsugumi, Marika Tachibana, Kosaki Onodera (BABY GIRL, why Raku not end up with you) *(, Haru Onodera, Chitoge Kirisaki, Paula McCoy NARUTO: SARADA, HINATA, HIMAWARI, TSUNADE, SHIZUNE, KARIN, TENTEN, TEMARI, INO, Kushina, Anko, Kaguya, OP: NAMI, BIG MOm (SHE'S HILARIOUS), ALVIDA (BADASS), MS. DOUBLEFINGER, MS. MERRY CHRISTMAS, VIVI, MS. GOLDEN WEEK (CUTE), KAYA,Charlotte Pudding, Charlotte Mondee, Viola, Carrot, Makino, Charlotte Praline, Charlotte Anana, Baby 5, Rika, Charlotte Amande, Charlotte Raisin, PH: ALICE, SHARON, SHERYL, ADA, ECHO, LILY, LOTTIE, ALYSS, LACIE, CORE, Marie PMMM: MADOKA, SAYAKA, HOMURA, MAMI, KYOKO, YUMA, NAGISA/CHARLOTTE RE ZERO: EMILIA, SATELLA, FELT, RAM, REM, BEATRICE, CRUSCH, MIMI, PRISCILLA, ECHIDNA,Carmilla, Sekhmet, Typhon, Daphne, Minerva, Anastasia, Capella, Mimi, Frederica, Pandora, Fortuna, Petra, Medium, Yorna, Arakiya, Meili, Theresia van Astraea, Lamia Godwin, Sirius, Capella Emerada Lugunica, Louis Arneb, Taritta, Mizelda, Katya, Ryuzu, Omega, Spica, SM: ALL OF THEM EVEN THE VILLAINS SL: LINA, AMELIA, Martina, Lord of Nightmares, Filia, Luna Inverse, SW: ASUNA, SACHI, SUGUHA, LISBETH, YUI, SILICA TG: TOUKA, HINAMI, ETO, SAIKO, AKIRA TD: TAIGA, MINORI TM: RYOKO, AYEKA, ACHIKA, Sasami Love Live: Honoka, Nico, Maki, Kotori, Umi, Ruby, Dia, Mari, NoZomi LEAST FAVORITE MALE CHARACTERS BL: CREED CG: SUZAKU, V.V, CHARLES, DIETHARD, SChneizel, JEREMIAH DR: Yasuke, because fuck him. DN: LIGHT. FUCKING LIGHT. DC: KOGORO, GIN, VODKA DBZ: FRIEZA, GERO, Future ANDROID 17, BUU, ADULT GOHAN, Hercule, Saiyaman Gohan (to me a failure of a character), Buu in general, Nappa, 19 ELD: BANDO, KURAMA, TOMOO, KAKUZAWA ESC: DORNKIRK. FOZ: SAIto, WARDES, COLBERT, SCARRON (PEDO), The sicko who tortures his maids. FMA: ZOLF KIMBLEY OR WHOEVER ELSE. HIGURASHI: TEPPEI NARUTO: NARUTO, PEIN, ITACHI,GATO, MIZUKI, EBISU, HIASHI, THE CLOUD NINJA DICK, OROCHIMARU, KABUTO, SASORI, DEIDARA bnha: Endeavor, Bakugo, All for One (author is making him too op), Muscular, Mustard, Mineta, Canon Touya (they completely butchered his character in horrific ways, removed any sympathy I could have had and made him have ice powers for no fucking reason, added ooc bullshit that completely killed him, and then they made it so it was all to impress "Daddy", and then they made it so All for One was involved and fucked up his life, instead of letting him be this badass villain who rescues his siblings from his abuser, or who gets his burns some other way. Instead everything was retconned to prehistoric levels of bs and now he's burning himself to death for his abuser to notice him. Fuck Horikoshi. Touya deserved better than the horrible way canon distorted him to make him look like an outright monster. Fuck that, Seiji Shishikura, Doctor Tsubasa. MONSTER: JOHAN OP: GIN, KURO, Caesar Clown, Arlong, Hody Jones, OS: MCDOUGALL BROTHERS PH: VINCENT, CHESHIRE, REIM (USELESS PM), ZAI, LEVI, OSWALD PMMM: KYUBEY RE ZERO: ROSWAAL, BETELGEUSE, Ley Batenkatos, Regulus, Hector, Todd Fang (I've had enough of this Gary Stu), Jamal, Zikr (boring), Ishmael, Goz, Felix's father, Veltol Astraea, Heinkel Astraea, Stride Vollachia, White Whale, Joshua Juukulius, Kiritaka Muse, SW: SUGOU, KAYABA, KURADEEL TG: TSUKIYAMA, KANAE, KUREO LEAST FAVE Females Bnha: Canon versions of Fuyumi and Rei as they deserve better. Also Eri's mother. ACSR: KUROKO (CREEPY) CG: MARIANNE, NINA (DIE BITCH DIE), VILLETTA "VILE" NU, KAGUYA DR: JUNKO DBZ: MARRON, Future Android 18, Videl, ELD: YUKA, MARIKO, SAITO ESC: MERLE FOZ: LOUISE, SIESTA, ELEONORE, JESSICA, BEATRICE (RACIST POS), SHEFFIELD (USELESS BINCH), GW: DOROTHY HIGURASHI: TAMAE HOJO, RENA'S MOM, ORYOU AND TAKANO, Goutoko (fucking hate this version of Satoko and it killed her for me), Featherine/Eua (Mary Sue shithead) TMOHS: HARUHI, MIKURU NARUTO: SAKURA PH: VANESSA, NOISE, MIRANDA PMMM: HITOMI, HOMURA AFTER REBELLION RE ZERO: Felix's mother, Lamia. LOVE HINA: NARU AND MOTOKO. ABUSERS ARE GROSS. TG: RIZE, KANEKI'S MOM AND AUNT MY OTPS: STRAIGHT OTPS: ANIME: Favorite Harry Potter Ships: James X Lily, Harry X Ginny, Harry X Hermione (mostly as a brotp), Harry x Daphne, Harry X Luna, Harry x anyone, though mostly Ginny if anything. Ron x Hermione, Cho x Cedric. Favorite HP characters: Male -Dumbledore -Neville -Sirius -Regulus -Fenrir -Barty Crouch Jr -Percy Weasley -Arthur Weasley -Fred and George -Ron -Draco -Lucius -Filch -Dudley -Harry -James -Remus -Lily -Rita Skeeter -Ginny -Luna -Hermione -Pansy -Cho Chang -Lavender -Daphne Greengrass -Susan Bones -Amelia Bones -McGonagall Least favorite characters Male -Snape -Vernon -Voldemort Female -Bellatrix -Umbridge favorite twd characters: (male) Philip Blake/The Governor, Dale, Rick, Shane, Tyreese, Carl, Negan, Glenn, Hershel, Ezekiel (he's cool), Morgan, Abraham, Noah, Morgan's friend who died (the dude whose name I can't recall) favorite twd characters (female): Andrea, Amy, Lori, Judith, Lizzie, Mika, Tara, Maggie, Beth, Sophia, Carol, Sasha, Michonne, Clara, Denise, Jessie, Penny, Rosita, Meghan, Least faves: Merle, Negan, Jenner, Martinez, Gareth, Otis, Randall, Dwight, Gabriel, Spencer, Sam, Dale (he's annoying but well-meaning), Patricia (she didn't do very much, did she? But her death was sad.), Alisha, Karen, Milton (he didn't have enough screen time to really develop like I wanted to see), Nicholas (cowardly little shit he nearly killed Glenn), Dawn, Gorman, Jesus (he's kind of annoying atm), Lily, Joan (she didn't do very much and died too fast), Ron (he shot Carl's eye out ffs), Pete (abusive dickbag), Ed (no one missed him), Jimmy (he was underdeveloped and sort of useless), Joe and his gang of creeps, The Saviors in general (gimme back the Governor, dammit. TVD: Tyler Lockwood, Matt, Damon, Stefan, Klaus, Elijah, Harper, Alaric, Jeremy, favorite anime: Full Metal Alchemist 2003, Code Geass, Digimon Tamers, ,One Piece, Outlaw Star, Pandora Hearts, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Black Cat, Re Zero, Dragonball Z, The Vision of Escaflowne, MAR, Monster, Megaman Starforce, Nisekoi, Tokyo Ghoul,Slayers, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Death Note, Digimon Frontier, Dragonball, Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, Spiral, D Gray man, Love Live, kira Kira Precure A LA Mode, , Tenchi Muyo, Tenchi Universe, Sailor Moon, So I’m a spider so what?, Danganronpa, Assassination Classroom, Shakugan no Shana decent anime but not my favorite: Naruto, Cardcaptors, DanganRonpa, Sonic X, Dragonball Super, Dinosaur King, Sket Dance, Tokyo Mew Mew, Inuyasha, Worst anime: the familiar of zero (mother of god does this need a rewrite, everything is horrible), Black Rock Shooter, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Dragonball Gt, Dragonball Daima, Ranma 1/2, Fushigi Yuugi, Spiral anime, anything by Joseph Lai, Higurashi Gou/Sotsu, Fate, Pokemon anime, Garzey’s Wing, Umineko, Kodomo no Jikan, Kagepro, Nadesico, Future Diary, Deadman Wonderland. anime I want to watch really bad: A certain Magical Index, Angel Sanctuary, Baccano!!, Eden of The East, , Rozen Maiden, Steins Gate, Ergo Proxy, Violet Evergarden, The Promised Neverland, ,School Live, Angel Beats, Aria, Clannad, Food wars, Gundam 00, Bang Dream, Kamisama Karin, AIKATSU, precure,Spy x Family, Sket Dance, Haikyu, Psycho Pass, JujuTsu Kaisen, worst manga ever: Sword Art Online Aincrad, PMD manga, Code Geass manga (AVOID), best tv shows: The Walking Dead (Season 7) Heroes, Forever Knight, Star Trek TOS, Star Trek TNG, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Doctor Who, Kitchen Nightmares, Lucifer, Ghost Whisperer, Hawthorne, Being Human, Murder She Wrote (I love this series, on season 6 and ongoing.), The Golden Girls, Roseanne, The Vampire Diaries, Peaky Blinders, The 100, The Originals worst tv shows: Psych (the main character is annoying to me), Fear the Walking Dead (it's just poorly done), and anything else that slipped my mind. tv shows I want to watch real bad: Any of them best animated American/other shows: Danny Phantom, Batman the Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Justice League, Teen Titans, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (superb job on a show for nine seasons, Hasbro.), American Dragon Jake Long, Juniper Lee, Scooby Doo, Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated,Superman the animated series, Dexter's Laboratory, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Gravity Falls, Recess, , Get Ed, Yin Yang Yo, Krypto the Superdog, Chowder, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Daria, Avatar, Liberty's Kids, Ben 10, Powerpuff Girls decent animated shows that I watched but not my fave: Kappa Mikey, Fairly Odd Parents, Winx Club, Littlest Pet Shop, Pound Puppies, Regular Show, The Batman, Ed Edd'n Eddy, Avatar, Legend of Korra, Thundercats. worst animated shows: Spongebob, Scrappy Doo and Scooby Doo Show, Steven Universe (I have little to no interest in it, nothing against the show itself.), Teen Titans Go, Superfriends, Banana Splits show, and others I can't think of. Velma. cartoons I want to see really bad: Over the Garden, Code Lyoko, best video games: Earthbound, Five Nights at Freddy's, Undertale, Mario bros, Legend of Zelda, Nintendogs, Pokemon Gens 1-5, PMD Blue Rescue Team/Red Rescue Team, some parts of PMD Sky, PMD Super mystery dungeon, Dinosaur Planet worst video games: A lot of PMD 2 and don't ask why. Also Mario and Luigi superstar saga. video games I want to play: PMD Gates and Super Mystery, Splatoon (it looks really fun). “A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”-Ursula K. Leguin, on writing "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."-Numbers 19:18 "Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it." -Song of Solomon, 8:7 "Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever."-Isaiah 30:7-8 "Resist not evil:but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."-Matthew 5:39 "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child:but when I became a man, I put away childish things."-Corinthians "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and any if there be any praise, think on these things."-Thessalonians "War spares not the brave, but the cowardly."-Anacreon "You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."-Madeleine L'engle from goodreads/com I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.” “We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connecting us both to our own insights and to a higher and deeper level of inner guidance. We should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. Writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. We should write because writing is good for the soul. We should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in. We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.” “We live and breathe words. ... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince, “My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.” "A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.” “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.” ― Anne Lamott, ns on Writing and Life
'In carrying on your government, why should you use killing [the unprincipled for the good of the unprincipled] at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the winds and the grass. The grass must bend when the wind blows against it."-Confucius. 'He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.'-Lao Tzu 'We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.'-Aesop 'Much learning does not teach a man to have intelligence.'Heraclitus 'All tremble at the rod, all fear death; making yourself the exemplar, do not kill or cause to kill.'-Suttapitaka 'Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victim of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.-Plato 'So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.'Lucretius 'The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.'-Horace 'We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?'-Seneca 'Good sense travels on the well-worn path; genius, never. And that is why, the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.'-Cesare Lombardo 'All the doings of mankind, their wishes, fears, anger, pleasures, joys, and varied pursuits, form the motley subject of my book.'-Decimus Junius Juvenal 'Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.'-St. Jerome '[The art of the novel] does not simply consist in the author's telling a story about the adventures of some other person...it happens because the storyteller's own experience of men and things, whether for good or ill-not only what he has passed through himself, but even events which he has only witnessed or been told of-has moved him to an emotion so passionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart...there must never come a time, he feels, when men do not know about it...Clearly, then, it is no part of the storyteller's craft to describe only what is good or beautiful. Sometimes, of course, virtue will be his theme, and he may then make such play with it as he will. But he is just as likely to have been struck by numerous examples of vice and folly in the world around him, and about them he has exactly the same feelings as about the preeminently good deeds which he encounters:they are important and must all be garnered in. Thus anything whatsoever may become the subject of a novel, provided only that it happens in this mundane life and not in a fairyland beyond our own ken.'-Murasaki Shikibu 'All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.'-Montaigne 'It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.'-Miguel Cervantes. 'Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.'-Francis Bacon. 'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'-Christopher Marlowe 'Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.'-Francis Milton. 'As good almost kills a man kills a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature;God's image, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.-Francis Milton THESE WERE taken from quote garden/ com (BOLD are from a book.) 'You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.' Ray Bradbury, R.I.P. 'If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.' Toni Morrison 'I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.' James Michener 'A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.' John K. Hutchens 'If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it'. Anais Nin 'Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.' E.L. Doctorow 'Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls.' Terri Guillemets 'I am a man, and alive... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog.' D.H. Lawrence, preface to Shestov, All Things Are Possible, 1938 'It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.' Sinclair Lewis 'The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.' William Faulkner, quoted in M. Cowley, Writers at Work, 1958 "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein" "The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind." Robert Brault "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. Anaïs Nin] Quotes on critics: (from and , and ) I like criticism. It makes you strong. “Writers shouldn't fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better, it gets them talking and arguing. But as for silence -- it is the greatest killer of writers. So if you hate a book and want to hurt it -- don't talk about it. And if you hate my books -- please, for God's sake, shout it from the hills! ” “Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.”-Stephen Potter |