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#1

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

#2

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

6215 likes

#3

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: comedy, humor, hurt, laughter, pain, tragedy

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#4

“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”
― Enrique Jardiel Poncela

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#5

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: introspection, writing

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#6

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

(Casual Chance, 1964)”
― Colette

tags: creative-process, editing, self-criticism, writing

482 likes

#7

“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”
― Hart Crane

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#8

“When humor goes, there goes civilization.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: civilization, humor, society

139 likes

#9

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

tags: authors, books, writing

1168 likes

#10

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

tags: awareness, ideas, thoughts, writing

108 likes

#11

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

41020 likes

#12

“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

tags: books, conversation, erudition, reading, writing

231 likes

#13

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: action, progress

1598 likes

#14

“The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend. ”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

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#15

“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#16

“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”
― John Ruskin, The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 16: A Joy Forever and The Two Paths

tags: literature

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