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#1

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

#2

“Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cicero: De Divinatione

tags: philosophy

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#3

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

44320 likes

#4

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

45296 likes

#5

“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

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32148 likes

#6

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

tags: good, writing

19425 likes

#7

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

tags: reading, writing

13094 likes

#8

“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
― Gene Fowler

tags: humor-writing-craft

1163 likes

#9

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

3050 likes

#10

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

5985 likes

#11

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

(Casual Chance, 1964)”
― Colette

tags: creative-process, editing, self-criticism, writing

482 likes

#12

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

4218 likes

#13

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: advice, writing

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#14