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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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    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
    tags: writing
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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Stephen King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
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    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
    tags: inspirational, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: college, semicolons, writing
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    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    ― Philip José Farmer
    tags: imagination, writing
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond.
    "How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks.
    "You were asleep, too?"
    "Until you began drooling on my shoulder.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: celaena-sardothien, chaol-westfall, throne-of-glass
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Second place is a nice title for the first loser.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Because I am lost," she whispered onto the earth. "And I do not know the way.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
    tags: celaena-sardothien
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Because she is dead!" She screamed the last word so loudly it burned in her throat. "Because she is dead, and I am left with my worthless life!”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Behind them, across the hall, the dancers shattered their roses on the floor, and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
    tags: aedion-ashryver, aelin-galathynius, queen-of-shadows
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."
    "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.
    "Selling them on what?"
    Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary-fray, ebay, jace-wayland, myth
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    Cassandra Clare
    “You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me."
    "I was ninety percent sure."
    "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain.
    "What the hell was that for?"
    "The other ten percent.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: humor, paranormal-romance
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    Cassandra Clare
    “What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.
    "It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: humor, jace, love, mortal-instruments
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?"
    "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are."
    "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?"
    "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary-fray, jace-wayland, joke, mummies, sarcasm, vampire, werewolf, zombies
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    Cassandra Clare
    “It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green."
    "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary, gray-book, humor, jace
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    Cassandra Clare
    “What do you want?"
    "Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: coffee, soul
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?"
    "Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word."
    "And you're a big-"
    "Tsk tsk," he interupted. "No swearing in church.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: atheist, church, clary-fray, jace-wayland, swear
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: dryer, fatal, humor, isabelle-lightwood, pasta
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “War is sanctioned murder, no matter what side you're on.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms
    tags: dorian-havilliard, manon-blackbeak
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms
    tags: empire-of-storms, fear, loss
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “A storm is coming. A great storm.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “It is not such a hard thing, is it - to die for your friends.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms
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