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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

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

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

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

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

“There is a comfort in the strength of love;
'Twill make a thing endurable, which else
Would overset the brain, or break the heart.

-Michael: A Pastoral Poem”
― William Wordsworth, William Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“We were together. I forget the rest.”
― Walt Whitman

“I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.”
― Robert Browning

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“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

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”
― William Faulkner