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#1

“Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.”
― Delia Ephron, Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.

tags: truth

#2

“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
― Owen Wister, The Virginian

tags: humorous-quotes, writers-and-writing, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes

742 likes

#3

“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
― Dean Koontz

1311 likes

#4

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo

2738 likes

#5

“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

1406 likes

#6

“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
― James M. Cain

tags: james-m-cain, writing-craft

1471 likes

#7

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

1046 likes

#8

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

1940 likes

#9

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
― Erich Segal

tags: love

1670 likes

#10

“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”
― Christian Bauman

tags: learn, read, reading

1874 likes

#11

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

1615 likes

#12

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

1878 likes

#13

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
― Colette

tags: animals, companions, friends, pets

1309 likes

#14

“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

tags: evil, monster

1758 likes

#15

“To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

870 likes

#16

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
― Thea Dorn

tags: reading

1481 likes

#17

“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
― Andre Maurois

tags: andre-maurois-books-reading

1538 likes

#18

“In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
― Rose Tremain

tags: endings, planning, writing

812 likes

#19

“I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.”
― Martha Stewart

tags: confidence, goals

570 likes

#20

“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

tags: literature, writing-craft-talent

569 likes

#21

“It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

617 likes

#22

“When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having.”
― Rachel Simmons, The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

625 likes

#23

“All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.”
― David Walliams, Gangsta Granny

791 likes

#24

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”
― Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China

tags: travel

691 likes

#25

“What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.”
― Ted Hughes

454 likes

#26

“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”
― Thea Astley

597 likes

#27

“Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.”
― Will Cuppy

tags: animals, apes, humor, humorous, mammals, primates

286 likes

#28

“I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.”
― Alan Paton

tags: complaining, love

512 likes

#29

“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
― Gretel Ehrlich

501 likes

#30

“But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”
― Gloria Naylor

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