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    William Faulkner
    “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: achievement, artist, goal, inspirational
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    Janet Frame
    “Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ”
    ― Janet Frame
    tags: imagination, inspirational, novel, writing
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    Toni Morrison
    “Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: african-american, art, black, literature, sociology
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    Eudora Welty
    “Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.”
    ― Eudora Welty
    tags: creativity, inspirational, writing
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    Toni Morrison
    “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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    Alice Walker
    “And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. ”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: creative, creativity, inspirational
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    Margaret Walker
    “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
    ― Margaret Walker
    tags: books, inspirational
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
    ― kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
    tags: bad-reviews, critics, literary-criticism, reviewers, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: censorship, freedom, writers-block, writing
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    Ruth Rendell
    “I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.”
    ― Ruth Rendell
    tags: character, creativity, writing
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    Isabel Allende
    “Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.”
    ― Isabel Allende
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    Isabel Allende
    “Write what should not be forgotten.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: forgotten, on-writing, writing, writing-advice
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    “Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.”
    ― damali ayo
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    “There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”
    ― Bjork
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    Naomi Wolf
    “A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”
    ― Naomi Wolf
    tags: beauty, body-image, culture, eating-disorders, images, society, weight
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    Maya Angelou
    “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Doris Lessing
    “A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough... People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.”
    ― Doris Lessing
    tags: democracy, independent-thought, indoctrination, libraries, library, thinking, thought
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