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#1

“I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#2

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

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#3

“Someday is not a day of the week.”
― Janet Dailey

tags: humor, procrastination

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#4

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

tags: integrity

1891 likes

#5

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

2977 likes

#6

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#7

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

tags: writing

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#8

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17112 likes

#9

“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table

tags: longing, loss, love, memory

338 likes

#10

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

1094 likes

#11

“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."

[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
― David McCullough

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#12

“Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.”
― David McCullough

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#13

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

tags: books, home, library

979 likes

#14

“It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves

tags: intimacy, letters

89 likes

#15

“I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

47 likes

#16

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

3423 likes

#17

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27771 likes

#18

“What do we say to the Lord of Death?'

'Not today.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: defiance, fear-of-death

1338 likes

#19

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: friendship, loneliness

3060 likes

#20

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

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#21

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: individuality

3630 likes

#22

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

tags: writing

2640 likes

#23

“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: human-nature, power, wisdom

834 likes

#24

“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: needs, virtue, wish-fulfillment, writing

374 likes

#25

“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: characters, fiction-writing, human-nature, journey, life-lessons, truth

390 likes

#26

“The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.”
― Mutant Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

tags: living, the-world

211 likes

#27

“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
― Ovid

958 likes

#28

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

5405 likes

#29

“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: alina-starkov

434 likes

#30

“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”
― Susan B. Anthony

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