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    John Steinbeck
    “I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: loneliness, people, scared, world
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    Georges Simenon
    “Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”
    ― Georges Simenon
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    Georges Simenon
    “It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made. ”
    ― Georges Simenon
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    Frank McCourt
    “It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
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    Frank McCourt
    “He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: on-writing, self-expression
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Remember, the enemy's gate is down.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: ender
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Whatever your gravity is when you get to the door, remember―the enemy's gate is down.
    If you step through your own door like you're out for a stroll, you're a big target and you deserve to get hit. With more than a flasher.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, First Meetings in Ender's Universe
    tags: enderverse, flasher, target
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    Maya Angelou
    “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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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “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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    Ernest Hemingway
    “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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    Henry Ford
    “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
    ― Henry Ford
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    “May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know it's beauty all the days of your life.”
    ― Apache Blessing
    tags: benediction
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    “People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: television, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: truth, writing, writing-advice
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    John Steinbeck
    “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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    Stephen King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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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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    Neil Gaiman
    “Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Truman Capote
    “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
    ― Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations
    tags: creative-process, music, poetry, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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  • #29
    So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters;
    “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: feminism, writing
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
    tags: writing
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