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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #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
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #7
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #8
    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    Robert Frost

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #11
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #12
    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #13
    Stephen  King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #14
    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #15
    Frank Patrick Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #16
    Kingsley Amis
    “If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
    Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

  • #17
    David Levithan
    “This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
    David Levithan, Every Day

  • #18
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • #19
    Stephen  King
    “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #20
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #21
    Richard Price
    “You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
    Richard Price

  • #22
    John Green
    “Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

    [Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
    John Green

  • #23
    Cornelia Funke
    “Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
    Cornelia Funke

  • #24
    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #25
    Neil Gaiman
    “When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #26
    Stephen  King
    “In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #27
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #28
    Stephen  King
    “When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”
    Stephen King

  • #29
    Sidney Sheldon
    “A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
    Sidney Sheldon

  • #30
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”
    Patrick Rothfuss



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