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#1

“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

tags: publishing, writers, writing

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#2

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

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#3

“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

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#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

tags: writing

2647 likes

#5

“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

tags: books, imagination, writing

2610 likes

#6

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

tags: imagination, writing

2554 likes

#7

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

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#8

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

tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing

2252 likes

#9

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

tags: art, creativity, motivational, picasso, rules, writing

2044 likes

#10

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

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#11

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: on-writing, reading, writing

1380 likes

#12

“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

tags: inspirational, productivity, writing

1396 likes

#13

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

tags: writing

1192 likes

#14

“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

tags: fiction, money, on-writing, virgin, women, writing

1484 likes

#15

“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

tags: love, pain, relationships, self

5533 likes

#16

“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

5343 likes

#17

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

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

4219 likes

#18

“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

1429 likes

#19

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

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#20

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

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#21

“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

706 likes

#22

“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

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#23

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

tags: writing

594 likes

#24

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

tags: misattributed-ernest-hemingway, misattributed-leonard-cohen

562 likes

#25

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

tags: caricature, characters, skill, true-to-life, writing

449 likes

#26

“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

tags: inspirational

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