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    Maya Angelou
    “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspirational
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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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    Cyril Connolly
    “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

    [The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
    ― Cyril Connolly
    tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing
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    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
    tags: writing
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    “So, why do you write these strong female characters?

    Because you’re still asking me that question."

    [Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: femininism, progress, understanding
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    Roald Dahl
    “Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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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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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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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
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
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    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
    tags: inspirational, writing
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: poetry, prose, writing
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Tears are words that need to be written.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: inspirational, sadness, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
    ― Steve Maraboli
    tags: cry, forgive, happiness, inspiration, learn, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-on, seeds, success, tears, water
    3272 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: poetry
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writers, writing-advice
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
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    Ally Carter
    “Don't get it right, get it written.”
    ― Ally Carter
    tags: writing-advice
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    “10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer

    Write.
    Write more.
    Write even more.
    Write even more than that.
    Write when you don’t want to.
    Write when you do.
    Write when you have something to say.
    Write when you don’t.
    Write every day.
    Keep writing.”
    ― Brian Clark
    tags: creative-process, writing, writing-advice, writing-process
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    Richard Carlson
    “You are what you practice most.”
    ― Richard Carlson
    tags: practice
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    Chris Bradford
    “Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice.”
    ― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Warrior
    tags: practice, victory
    62 likes

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    Helen Keller
    “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: collaboration, life, teamwork
    1248 likes



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