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  • #1
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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

  • #3
    Maurice Switzer
    “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

  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #5
    Douglas Adams
    “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

  • #6
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #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

  • #9
    Virginia Woolf
    “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

  • #10
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #11
    Colette
    “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

  • #12
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #13
    Stephen  King
    “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #14
    T.S. Eliot
    “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
    T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

  • #15
    Alberto Brandolini
    “The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”
    Alberto Brandolini
    tags: humor



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