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#1

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
― Stephen King

tags: life-experience, writing, writing-craft

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#2

“Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
― Stephen King

tags: children

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#3

“Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
― Stephen King

tags: art-on-writing

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#4

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

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#5

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

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#6

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

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#7

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#8

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#9

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
― Stephen King

tags: harry-potter, jk-rowling, stephenie-meyer, twilight

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#10

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#11

“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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#12

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy

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#13

“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: brave

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#14

“History is written by the winners.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history

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#15

“Imagination governs the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: art, imagination

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#16

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.  ”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

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#17

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

tags: on-writing, words, writing

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#18

“Tears are words that need to be written.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: inspirational, sadness, writing

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#19

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

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#20

“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: reading, writing

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#21

“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.”
― Jennifer Weiner

tags: book-lovers, reading, writing

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#22

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

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#23

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: inspirational

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#24

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: education, libraries, self-education

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#25

“It’s Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don’t try to understand it. Just roll with it.”
― Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart

tags: adrian-ivashkov-logic

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#26

“Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: on-writing

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#27

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”
― Stuart Chase

tags: belief, god, life, religion

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#28

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

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#29

“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: aeneid, book-vii, line-312

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#30

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: inspirational

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