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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #3
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #6
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #7
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #8
    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    E.L. Doctorow

  • #9
    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #10
    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

  • #11
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

  • #12
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #13
    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #14
    Stephen  King
    “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #15
    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    Jack London

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    Michael Cunningham
    “One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
    Michael Cunningham

  • #19
    Hermann Hesse
    “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #20
    “When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”
    Lady Gaga

  • #21
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #22
    Thomas Jefferson
    “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #23
    Emily Dickinson
    “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #24
    Jules Renard
    “Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
    Jules Renard

  • #25
    Steve  Martin
    “Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
    Steve Martin

  • #26
    Pablo Picasso
    “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #27
    Richard Bach
    “A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
    Richard Bach

  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All I need is a sheet of paper
    and something to write with, and then
    I can turn the world upside down.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #29
    Roald Dahl
    “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”
    Roald Dahl

  • #30
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
    Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose



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