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    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: civilization, writers, writing
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    Cornelia Funke
    “So what? All writers are lunatics!”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: humor, writing
    1734 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: introspection, writing
    993 likes

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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
    tags: humor, writers, writing
    83 likes

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  • #5
    “Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.”
    ― William Kittredge
    tags: meaning, writing
    14 likes

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  • #6
    “Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
    Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi
    tags: writing
    218 likes

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    Michael Connelly
    “You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."

    ("The Castle")”
    ― Michael Connelly
    tags: perseverance, writing, writing-craft
    133 likes

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    Jean Anouilh
    “Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”
    ― Jean Anouilh
    tags: inspiration, poetry, writing
    12 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
    5359 likes

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    Joan Didion
    “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
    ― Joan Didion
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    Aldous Huxley
    “A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
    ― Aldous Huxley , Point Counter Point
    tags: writing
    76 likes

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  • #12
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
    19414 likes

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  • #13
    William Shakespeare
    “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: brevity, wit
    1423 likes

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  • #14
    George Orwell
    “Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: writing
    40 likes

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    William Carlos Williams
    “I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.”
    ― William Carlos Williams
    tags: writing
    63 likes

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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: creative-process, escape, novels, reality, writing
    620 likes

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  • #17
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
    ― Mario Vargas-Llosa
    tags: books, writing
    366 likes

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    Mary Oliver
    “I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”
    ― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
    tags: reading, writing
    384 likes

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: christianity, commandments, etiquette, excuses, grammar, internet, language, religion, rules, social-networking, social-networks, spelling, the-ten-commandments, tweet, twitter
    18 likes

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    Nadine Gordimer
    “The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.”
    ― Nadine Gordimer, Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
    tags: nadine-gordimer, solitude, writing
    41 likes

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    Paul Di Filippo
    “As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.”
    ― Paul Di Filippo, How To Write Science Fiction
    tags: science-fiction, writing
    15 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing, writing-craft, writing-life
    81 likes

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  • #23
    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: writing
    3922 likes

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    John Updike
    “Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.”
    ― John Updike
    tags: inspirational-quotes, life, writing
    61 likes

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    Robert Cormier
    “The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.”
    ― Robert Cormier
    tags: writing
    209 likes

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  • #26
    Molière
    “Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
    ― Moli
    tags: writing
    327 likes

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  • #27
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational, writing
    14 likes

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  • #28
    Alexandre Dumas
    “I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: writing
    505 likes

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  • #29
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott
    tags: writing
    8 likes

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  • #30
    Natalie Goldberg
    “Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.”
    ― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
    79 likes



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