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    “Another damn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?

    (On publication of Vol. 1 of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire”
    ― Duke of Gloucester
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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    Margaret Atwood
    “A word after a word after a word is power.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: reading, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: writing
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing
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    Willa Cather
    “Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
    ― Willa Cather
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: writing
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    William Wordsworth
    “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
    ― William Wordsworth
    tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart
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    William Faulkner
    “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: revision, writing
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    Isaac Asimov
    “I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Franz Kafka
    “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

    [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing
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    Jules Renard
    “Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”
    ― Jules Renard
    tags: humor, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
    tags: desire, disatisfaction, life
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    Virginia Woolf
    “She read everything.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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  • #16
    Virginia Woolf
    “Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
    tags: love
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  • #17
    Virginia Woolf
    “Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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