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“Words, words, words.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Do not dare not to dare.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

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

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

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

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Sometimes the inspiration is there, and sometimes it's not, but you can't force it. It's not a light switch or something.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“Why do his words get to come out all flawlessly Times New Roman, and mine are, like, Wingdings?”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“She knew me then, at the beginning of ourselves, and she knew me now, here at the end, when she did not even know herself.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Knight and the Butcherbird