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“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: belief, gods, ideas

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#2

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Curie

tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence

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#3

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas

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#4

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

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#5

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

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#12

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
― Claude Monet

tags: flowers

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#24

“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

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#25

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

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#28

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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#33

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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#34

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#35

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

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#36

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

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#37

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#38

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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#39

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

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#40

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#41

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#42

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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#43

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#44

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: on-writing, reading, writing

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#45

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: writing, writing-process

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#46

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

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#47

“How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big bathtub.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

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#48

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

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#49

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#50

“Don't get it right, get it written.”
― James Thurber

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#51

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

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#52

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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#53

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

tags: writing

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