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“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

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.”
― Bill Watterson

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“We live and breathe words.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince