Ksenia Anske

“I'm weird. On the surface I look quiet and composed, but inside I have a hundred voices raging at full volume.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Writing is breathing life into forgotten memories.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Maturity is for serious people. Let us be immature and have endless fun.”
― Ksenia Anske

“To be able to write a novel you have to be willing to fall out of life for 1 year and not let anyone sway you.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Can't live without writing. Can't write without reading. Can't read without dreaming. Can't dream without living.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“All I can register of these people is a pattern of blur, one string of masks instead of faces. Atonal, solid, boring. They look like fish, crowded by the glass of a gigantic aquarium, hoping you’ll feed them, give them a morsel of something special that will make them forget their misery for a minute”
― Ksenia Anske, I Chose to Die

“Writers are those weird people that like to take off their skin in public.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Everything has been said already. But it hasn't been said the way you'd say it. So go ahead. WRITE.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“I live on the mountain of my madness, on the very top.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Fear is the most debilitating obstacle to creativity.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“It’s no use trying to catch a butterfly. You either chase it like an idiot for hours only for it to flitter off the moment you think you've got it, or you do catch it and crumple its wings in your sweaty fist and it dies in your hand.”
― Ksenia Anske, Irkadura

“A great book is the one you dive in and swim until there is no air left, but you keep swimming, forgetting air, breathing the story.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“You know why I write? Because paper can't tell me to SHUT UP.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“If your heart is aching, it's because it wants to shed its pain. Let it. Write a story.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“There are only three things I do. I read. I write. And I fart glitter.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Don't worry about getting published. Write for therapy. Write for you.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“It's hard to walk when your legs are wobbly, but you learned. It's hard to write when your words are wobbly, but you'll learn.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Does world seem black and white to you? Read books. You will see color.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“If I didn't write, I'd explode in a brilliant shower of literacy sparkles and would be no more.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Who is happy sitting alone at home, reading a book, smiling like a lunatic? A WRITER.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Reading is the best medicine, writing is the best cure.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Bleed out your story. It's a painful process, but in the end you will feel lighter and we will feel enriched.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“To write better dialogue, I turned into an eavesdropper.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Your dream won't happen if all you do is dream about it. Do it.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Writers don't need food. Writers can survive on coffee, idea fumes, and trifles. Rich literary trifles.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Writing is an amazing thing. Because paper doesn't tell you to shut up, never ever EVER.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Just forget the world and its naysayers. Close the door and write. Let them talk while you're building your future.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“A poor attempt at writing is better than no attempt at all.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Your worry days are over. You're a writer. Worry on paper.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“I know it feels like it, but you're not alone in your pain. Shed it. Write a story. And we'll tell you that our pain is the same.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense