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    C.J. Heck
    “May you always see the world through the eyes of a child.”
    ― CJ Heck
    tags: children, inspirational, keeping-the-inner-child, life
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    C.J. Heck
    “We all have an inner voice, our personal whisper from the universe. All we have to do is listen -- feel and sense it with an open heart. Sometimes it whispers of intuition or precognition. Other times, it whispers an awareness, a remembrance from another plane. Dare to listen. Dare to hear with your heart.”
    ― CJ Heck, Bits and Pieces: Short Stories from a Writer's Soul
    tags: awareness, intuition, listen-with-an-open-heart, precognition, remembrance, spirituality
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    C.J. Heck
    “We writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and wanting out.”
    ― C.J. Heck
    tags: crazy-profession, work-is-inside, work-wants-out, writing
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    C.J. Heck
    “A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...”
    ― CJ Heck
    tags: clarity, extraordinary, ordinary, writing
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    C.J. Heck
    “A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”
    ― CJ Heck
    tags: easy-to-read, hard-to-write, writers, writing
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    C.J. Heck
    “When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad or angry?”
    ― CJ Heck
    tags: be-aware-of-inner-child, feelings, writing-for-children
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    C.J. Heck
    “Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings; every thought is a garden full of wonder.”
    ― C.J. Heck
    tags: children, innocent-wonder, thoughts-are-gardens
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    Samuel Butler
    “Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.”
    ― Samuel Butler
    tags: on-books-being-born, they-insist-on-being-written
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  • #9
    C.J. Heck
    “At this stage of my life, I've finally come to realize I've learned more from my children than they ever learned from me.”
    ― C.J. Heck
    tags: children, learning, seniors
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    C.J. Heck
    “I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...”
    ― C.J. Heck
    tags: childhood, long-days, youth
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  • #11
    “If you can't forgive and forget, then pick one and do it ...”
    ― James Brault
    tags: forgetting, forgiveness, humor
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  • #12
    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
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  • #13
    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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    R.S. Guthrie
    “The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able.”
    ― R.S. Guthrie
    tags: indie-author, indie-books, readers
    12 likes

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    Stephen King
    “We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”
    ― Stephen King, Duma Key
    tags: fools, life
    162 likes

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    Alice Sebold
    “Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: destiny, dreams, epiphany, re-direction, re-thinking
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  • #17
    Marc Brown
    “Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
    ― Marc Brown
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  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    176997 likes

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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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  • #20
    Meryl Streep
    “I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.”
    ― Meryl Streep
    tags: confidence, role-models, women
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    Meryl Streep
    “I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.”
    ― Meryl Streep
    tags: inspirational, life
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    C.J. Heck
    “A runner's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one step, one breath, one heartbeat at a time. It's the same for a writer ...”
    ― C.J. Heck
    tags: don-t-get-ahead-of-yourself, running, writing
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    C.J. Heck
    “A writer's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at a time.”
    ― C.J. Heck
    tags: books, don-t-get-ahead-of-yourself, savor-the-moments, step-by-step, writing
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  • #24
    John Lennon
    “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: inspirational, life
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  • #25
    C.J. Heck
    “Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time'
    lasts forever.”
    ― C.J. Heck
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    Philip Pullman
    “Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: once-upon-a-time, philip-pullman, thou-shalt-not
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  • #27
    John Cheever
    “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: readers-and-writers
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  • #28
    C.J. Heck
    “We are all products of our environment; every person we meet, every new experience or adventure, every book we read, touches and changes us, making us the unique being we are.”
    ― C.J. Heck
    tags: books-we-read, experiences-and-adventures, how-we-become-us, who-we-are
    35 likes

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  • #29
    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love
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  • #30
    “Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
    3694 likes



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