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#1

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#2

“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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#3

“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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#4

“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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#5

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#6

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

4557 likes

#7

“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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#8

“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

4375 likes

#9

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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#10

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

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#11

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

2797 likes

#12

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
― Michael Cunningham

tags: life, on-fiction, writing

1196 likes

#13

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

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#14

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#15

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

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#16

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: on-writing, reading, writing

1382 likes

#17

“You can fix anything but a blank page.”
― Nora Roberts

tags: on-writing, storytelling, writing

778 likes

#18

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

938 likes

#19

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster

tags: advice, e-m-forster, essay, fiction, writing

668 likes

#20

“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”
― Abigail Adams

tags: historical, inspiring, literacy, women, writing

360 likes

#21

“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
― Carlos Fuentes

tags: carlos, fuentes, genre, writing

265 likes

#22

“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”
― P. G. Wodehouse

tags: childhood, humor, writing

351 likes

#23

“Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.”
― Mark Twain

tags: on-writing, writing

168 likes

#24

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

tags: writing

177 likes

#25

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
― Alan Dean Foster

tags: procrastination, writing

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#26

“You can't edit a blank page”
― Nora Roberts

tags: nora-roberts, writing

150 likes

#27

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

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#28

“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”
― Aldous Huxley, La volgarità in letteratura

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