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  • #1
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #2
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #3
    Tasha Tudor
    “I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.”
    Tasha Tudor

  • #4
    “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

  • #5
    Caroline Gordon
    “A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
    Caroline Gordon

  • #6
    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    Philip José Farmer

  • #7
    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    Jack London

  • #8
    Howard Nemerov
    “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
    Howard Nemerov

  • #9
    Pablo Picasso
    “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #10
    John Steinbeck
    “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
    John Steinbeck

  • #11
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #13
    Richard Price
    “You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
    Richard Price

  • #14
    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #15
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
    Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #18
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #19
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #20
    Ernest Hemingway
    “You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #21
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #22
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
    Think of what you can do with that there is”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #24
    Ernest Hemingway
    “We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
    Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

  • #26
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero



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