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“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”
― Stephen King

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
― Isaac Asimov

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

“Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.”
― Neil Gaiman

“If I were a rock star, I’d have Taylor Swifted him and written one of those anthemic I don’t love you anymore songs.”
― Lauren Blakely, Caught Up in Us

“You're too damn beautiful for your own good.Hell,you're too damn beautiful for my own good”
― Caisey Quinn, Girl with Guitar

“Trace Corbin should come with a warning label: highly addictive.”
― Caisey Quinn, Girl with Guitar

“God, those eyes. Take cover, they said, because the storm was here now.”
― Caisey Quinn, Girl with Guitar

“Fuck this. When life gets hard, ask Google. Google knows everything”
― Emma Hart, The Love Game

“What are you doing?” I asked. “Are we getting all Fifty Shades up in here?”
He shushed me. “Nothing that dangerous. You won’t need a safe word.”
― Sophia Bleu, Catching Liam

“I’m drawn to you, Alayna. Not because I want to hurt you or make you feel a certain way, but because you’re beautiful and sexy and smart and, yes, a little crazy, maybe, but you’re not broken. And that makes me hopeful. For me.”
― Laurelin Paige, Fixed on You

“I never pay for sex, Alayna. When I fuck you, it will be for free.”
― Laurelin Paige, Fixed on You

“I will continue to seduce you. I’m a man who gets what he wants. And I want you.”
― Laurelin Paige, Fixed on You

“Neither. I was attracted to him because he’s hot. Though, I stayed with him because he’s fucking awesome in bed.”
― Laurelin Paige, Fixed on You

“I understood exactly what it was to want to change. To try to change. To find it impossible.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“Even in my thoughts, he watched me.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“A flood of inadequacy poured over me, a feeling of I-don’t-belong, but if not here, then where? The room began to close in around me, blanketing me with acute heaviness.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch

“all I hear are mixed messages.” “I’m unmixing them now. Listen. This is the one I want you to hear.”
― Laurelin Paige, First Touch