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  • #1
    Jules Renard
    “Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
    Jules Renard

  • #2
    Isabel Allende
    “Write what should not be forgotten.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #3
    Anaïs Nin
    “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
    Anais Nin

  • #4
    Julia Quinn
    “You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
    Julia Quinn

  • #5
    Emily Dickinson
    “I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #6
    Charles Péguy
    “A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
    Charles Péguy, Basic Verities, Prose, and Poetry

  • #7
    Steve  Martin
    “Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
    Steve Martin

  • #8
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    “Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
    Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

  • #9
    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #10
    Michael Ondaatje
    “She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
    Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

  • #11
    John Green
    “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #13
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #14
    William Shakespeare
    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet



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