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#1

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
― Jules Renard

tags: writing

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#2

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: forgotten, on-writing, writing, writing-advice

1581 likes

#3

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

2568 likes

#4

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

tags: romance, writing

1149 likes

#5

“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

tags: books, literature, meaning, power, words

763 likes

#6

“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

tags: words, writing

115 likes

#7

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

tags: humor, words

2963 likes

#8

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

2194 likes

#9

“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.

tags: affection, communication, heartwarming, human-connections, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, relationships

8576 likes

#10

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

tags: words

3118 likes

#11

“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

tags: attraction, beauty, popularity

7933 likes

#12

“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

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71691 likes

#13

“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

5987 likes

#14

“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

6045 likes

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