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#1

“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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#2

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: first-sentence

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#3

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

9097 likes

#4

“General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.”
― Marvin Minsky

tags: fiction, humor, interviews, on-fiction, science-fiction

79 likes

#5

“I’ve been thinking,” he said. “Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.”
― John Barnes, Tales of the Madman Underground

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#6

“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”
― Daniel Defoe

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#7

“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
― Daniel Defoe

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#8

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

tags: writing

5918 likes

#9

“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

2993 likes

#10

“This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: compassion, people, social-anxiety

1469 likes

#11

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: live-death-love

19552 likes

#12

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
― Ambrose Bierce

1657 likes

#13

“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
― Brian Tracy

tags: be-yourself, life, remaining-silent, reticence, wisdom

1604 likes

#14

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

tags: introspection, loquacity, remaining-silent, reticence, silence

1028 likes

#15

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
― Mark Twain

tags: remaining-silent, reticence

562 likes

#16

“Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
― Lou Holtz

tags: advice-for-daily-living, complaining, remaining-silent

580 likes

#17

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: remaining-silent

480 likes

#18

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
― Orson Scott Card

tags: remaining-silent, restraint, reticence, words

365 likes

#19

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

tags: accomplishment, belief, rewriting-history, sherlock-holmes

869 likes

#20

“By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: history, rewriting-history

393 likes

#21

“He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

tags: power-corrupts, rewriting-history

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