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    Frank E. Peretti
    “You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.”
    ― Frank Peretti
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    Melanie Kilsby
    “Aww, the sound of waves crashing along the ocean side and spraying back up to touch the wind only for a moment, then to fall back down becoming the ocean once more...”
    ― Melanie Kilsby
    tags: inspirational-quotes, ocean, reflection, thoughts-for-the-quiet-hour, thoughts-on-writing, thoughts-to-self
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    “Life is God's Novel. Let Him write it. -Isaac Bashevis Singer”
    ― -Isaac Bashevis Singer
    tags: god, novel
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    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
    tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words
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    Beverly Lewis
    “Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.”
    ― Beverly Lewis The Betrayal
    tags: books, friends, reading, words
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    Patricia Polacco
    “[Honey is sweet] and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book.”
    ― Patricia Polacco, Thank You, Mr. Falker
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    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
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32191 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
    19445 likes

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    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
    tags: reading, writing
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    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
    tags: writing
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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “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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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
    6003 likes

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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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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
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    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
    tags: inspirational, writing
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
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    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can make anything by writing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: writing
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    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
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44366 likes

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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    C.B. Cook
    “I'm your friend, and friends don't let friends die.”
    ― C.B. Cook, Twinepathy
    tags: friends, friendship, humor, quotes
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “It was worth it, Lia,” He said. “Every mile, every day. I’d do it all again. I’d chase you across three continents if that’s what it took to be with you.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, The Heart of Betrayal
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Julie Klassen
    “Live or die my heart is yours, Sophie Dupont.”
    ― Julie Klassen, The Painter's Daughter
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    Isaac Newton
    “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: id, intelligent-design, religion, religion-and-science, science, science-and-religion
    320 likes



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