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#1

“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

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#2

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: humor, writing

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#3

“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”
― Mickey Spillane

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#4

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

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#5

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

tags: book, hunger, weapon

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#6

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

tags: childhood, disease, literature

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#7

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books, infinite-jest

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#8

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
― Anne Rice

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#9

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

tags: story, writing

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#10

“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories

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#11

“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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#12

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#13

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#14

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#15

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
― Philip Roth

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#16

“Persistence can look a lot like stupid.”
― Kristen Lamb, Are You There Blog? It's Me, Writer

tags: kristen-lamb, publishing, wana, we-are-not-alone, writers, writing

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#17

“It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.”
― Kristen Lamb

tags: kristen-lamb, publishing, wana, we-are-not-alone, writers, writing

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#18

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

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#19

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

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#20

“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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#21

“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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#22

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

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#23

“You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.”
― Adrienne Rich

tags: on-writing, reading

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#24

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

8573 likes

#25

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

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#26

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

tags: humor

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#27

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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#28

“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”
― James Joyce

tags: humor, irish, writing

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#29

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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#30

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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