Quotes - Jackson (jacksontigwell) (Sydney, NSW, Australia) Showing 1-16 of 16

#1

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

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#2

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

tags: good, writing

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#3

“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

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#4

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#5

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

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#6

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#7

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

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#8

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#9

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

26973 likes

#10

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

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#11

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#12

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127203 likes

#13

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177281 likes

#14

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

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#15

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

3508 likes

#16

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life

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