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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
— Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing
346 people liked it

"A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty."
— Andrew Wolfe

tags: books, inspirational, love, truth
922 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,004 people liked it

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: anais, nin, qoutes, writing
579 people liked it

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Benjamin Disraeli

tags: truth
888 people liked it

"True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it."
— Alexandre Dumas

tags: alexandre, dumas, love
11 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,739 people liked it

"Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world."
— Sarah Rees Brennan

tags: on-writing
13 people liked it

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
— Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing
538 people liked it

"Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another."
— Chip Kidd (The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters)

11 people liked it

"I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

3 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,354 people liked it

"Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?"

"You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Strikes)

tags: humor
28 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,168 people liked it

"We were screwed and he didn't even kiss us first."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

8 people liked it

"We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now."
— Anne Bishop (Daughter of the Blood)

tags: evil, good, politics
4 people liked it

"Some men die for lack of love... some men die because of it. "
— Anne Bishop (Daughter of the Blood)

tags: death, love
7 people liked it

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
— Willa Cather

tags: life, writing
135 people liked it

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth
799 people liked it

"When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper."
— Anne Bishop (Queen of the Darkness)

tags: balls, pants, temper
5 people liked it

"The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman's dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

2 people liked it

"Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

3 people liked it

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
— John Berger

tags: autobiography, john, john-berger, life, self, writing
17 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,628 people liked it

"'Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!
- Don Juan"
— George Gordon Byron

tags: fiction, strange, truth
16 people liked it

"Poems are never finished - just abandoned"
— Paul Valéry

tags: poem, writing
60 people liked it

"Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do."
— Anne Bishop (Daughter of the Blood)

tags: force, pain
3 people liked it

"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."
— James A. Michener

tags: writing
172 people liked it

"I'm the wife of a king, and the mother of kings. And I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. So fuck off, Jack.- Queen Christina (The Royal Treatment)"
— MaryJanice Davidson

15 people liked it

"A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: writing
31 people liked it

"Your ability to remain alive never ceases to amaze me."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

10 people liked it

"In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

2 people liked it

"I'm a substitute mom.
You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

6 people liked it

"There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers."
— Anne Bishop (Daughter of the Blood)

tags: answers, maturity, questions
4 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,887 people liked it

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
— C.S. Lewis (The World's Last Night: And Other Essays)

tags: age, fairy-tales
203 people liked it

"CALVIN:
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning & inhibit clarity."
— Bill Watterson

tags: writing
60 people liked it

"I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate. -Curran to Kate"
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

8 people liked it

"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."
— Isaac Asimov

tags: writing
48 people liked it

"This was hell and I was its fury."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

2 people liked it

"No, you’re not going with him.”
I crossed my arms. “Who decided that?”
He put on his “I’m alpha and I’m putting my foot down” expression. “I decided."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

tags: curran, kate
2 people liked it

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, writing
1,645 people liked it

"If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: fairy-tales
111 people liked it

"It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

4 people liked it

"I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it."
— Ann Patchett

tags: books, writing
12 people liked it

"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

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
2,986 people liked it

"The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink."
— Walter Mosley

tags: writing
22 people liked it

"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

tags: fiction, life, writing
226 people liked it

"I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide."
— Ilona Andrews (Magic Burns)

3 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,754 people liked it

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