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  • #1
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “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

  • #3
    Neil Gaiman
    “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #4
    Stephen  King
    “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
    Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

  • #5
    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    Jack London

  • #6
    Nora Roberts
    “You can fix anything but a blank page.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #7
    Colette
    “Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

    (Casual Chance, 1964)”
    Colette

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #11
    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

  • #12
    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    Terry Johnson, Insignificance

  • #13
    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    Anthony G. Oettinger

  • #14
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #15
    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #17
    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #18
    Lemony Snicket
    “Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #19
    Lemony Snicket
    “If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #20
    Richard Castle
    “As a writer, I can think of no greater terror than confronting a blank page, except perhaps the terror of being shot at.”
    Richard Castle, Naked Heat

  • #21
    Richard Castle
    “Go ahead. Rip my bodice.”
    Richard Castle, Naked Heat

  • #22
    Riley Shane
    “Gray grinned down at her. "You broke the bed.”
    Riley Shane, Blood Rose

  • #23
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Make me immortal with a kiss.”
    Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

  • #24
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #25
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #26
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #27
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #28
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain



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