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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “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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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Stephen King
    “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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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
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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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    Cassandra Clare
    “We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
    tags: dreams, letters, love, love-at-first-sight, power-of-words, writing
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    Saul Bellow
    “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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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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    William Faulkner
    “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
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    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
    tags: writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Stephen King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    Anton Chekhov
    “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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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #28
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    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
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37988 likes



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