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“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.”
― Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd”
― George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”
― George Gordon Byron

“I'm a drinker with writing problems.”
― Brendan Behan

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I handed him my heart, soul, and spirit on a silver platter and he crushed them into a million pieces.”
― Dana Mason, Dangerous Embrace

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft