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#1

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31289 likes

#2

“Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

32 likes

#3

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love, ordinary, people

12083 likes

#4

“Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.”
― Stephen King

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#5

“Write drunk; edit sober.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-ernest-hemingway

85 likes

#6

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: books

4688 likes

#7

“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

tags: alice-in-wonderland, inspirational-quotes, lewis-carroll

727 likes

#8

“Write about the emotions you fear the most.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

tags: writing

535 likes

#9

“It hurts because it mattered.”
― John Green

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#10

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: jordan-baker

4750 likes

#11

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
― Ernest Hemingway

1069 likes

#13

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

3621 likes

#15

“Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

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#16

“That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

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#17

“I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

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#18

“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

137 likes

#19

“People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

tags: get-on-the-bus

96 likes

#20

“Be in love with your life every minute of it.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#21

“It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

tags: dark-fantasy

125 likes

#22

“I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.”
― John Green

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#23

“Everyone has a book inside them - but it doesn't do an good until you pry it out.”
― Jodi Picoult

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#24

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

tags: alone, creative-process, eye-contact, introverts, profession, story, storytelling, writing

1256 likes

#25

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: demographics

3115 likes

#26

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

3964 likes

#27

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: on-writing

2182 likes

#28

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

3562 likes

#29

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: forgotten, on-writing, writing, writing-advice

1586 likes

#30

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

3370 likes

#31

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

4208 likes

#32

“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

It did not end well.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

3062 likes

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