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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #3
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    Robert Frost

  • #8
    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    E.L. Doctorow

  • #9
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #10
    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #11
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #12
    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    Jack London

  • #13
    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #14
    Coco J. Ginger
    “Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing.

    Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle.

    A writer who writes, knows peace, lives connected to truth.

    Not writing is ache, betrayal, death of the soul and imagination.”
    Jamie Weise

  • #15
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?

    Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.”
    Ernest Hemingway, On Writing

  • #16
    Amy Joy
    “Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.”
    Amy Joy

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. ...this book...is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink.
    Drink and be filled up.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #18
    Megan Chance
    “Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?”
    Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

  • #19
    Kaiden Blake
    “Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.”
    Kaiden Blake, Before Ever After

  • #20
    Nicholas Sparks
    “You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
    tags: art, lazy

  • #21
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “Humankind above all is lazy.”
    Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • #22
    Jarod Kintz
    “I’m not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I’m willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That’s just the kind of hard worker I am.”
    Jarod Kintz, Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

  • #23
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
    Robert Heinlein

  • #24
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
    Tchaikovsky

  • #25
    Agatha Christie
    “I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #27
    “i have no point in procrastinating any longer..”
    Flora Rheta Schreiber

  • #28
    Maya Angelou
    “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #29
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

  • #30
    If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor
    “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #31
    Ron Dakron
    “1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor.
    2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor.
    3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake.
    4. Pick one — fame or delight.
    5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket.
    6. Cunning and excess are your friends.
    7. TV and liquor are your enemies.
    8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m.
    9. You’re done when the crows sing.”
    Ron Dakron



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