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“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably”
― William Penn

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don’t wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that.”
― Zoe Winters, Smart Self-Publishing: Becoming an Indie Author

“You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing — grinding, buffing, and polishing — not writing.”
― Guy Kawasaki, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

“A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.”
― Guy Kawasaki, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book