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  • #1
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.”
    Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • #2
    Adam Santo
    “I like honesty more than my ego does.”
    Adam Santo, Temperature: Dead and Rising

  • #3
    Rita Mae Brown
    “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
    Rita Mae Brown

  • #4
    Adam Santo
    “Before you can write a single sentence, you must first create an entire world to support it.”
    Adam Santo, Temperature: Dead + Rising

  • #5
    Adam Santo
    “Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they won't.”
    Adam Santo

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #9
    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    E.L. Doctorow

  • #10
    G.K. Chesterton
    “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

  • #11
    Nora Roberts
    “You can fix anything but a blank page.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #12
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #13
    Steve  Martin
    “Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
    Steve Martin

  • #14
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #15
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
    robert heinlein

  • #16
    Holly Black
    “What an author doesn't know could fill a book.”
    Holly Black, Lucinda's Secret

  • #17
    Jess C. Scott
    “The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.”
    Jess C. Scott, The Darker Side of Life

  • #18
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #22
    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

  • #23
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #24
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #25
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #26
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #27
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #28
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #29
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #30
    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #31
    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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