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#1

“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: crayon, quip, writing

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#2

“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. ”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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#3

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
― Alice Walker

tags: art, bad, good, writing

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#4

“listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: ee-cummings, poetry

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#5

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
― Jack London

tags: charity, dogs, sharing

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#6

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: life

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#7

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#8

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#9

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#10

“I write emotional algebra.”
― Anais Nin

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#11

“Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'

- from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: arrakis, attitude, complete, dune, knife

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#12

“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling

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