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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.”
― Dan Poynter

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come”
― William Wordsworth

“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
― Ovid

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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

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

“I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley

“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

“women helping women, allowing us to be at the steering wheel of our own lives for once, right?”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

“He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.”
― Michel Faber

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“For archaeology, being a science, is neither good nor bad, but a fact simply. Its value depends entirely on how it is used, and only an artist can use it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It may be said of some very old places ... the nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem; the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Each season beholds the exploration of new sites, and each explorer has some new thing to tell ... The interest never flags – the subject never palls upon us – the mine is never exhausted.”
― Amelia B Edwards, Pharoahs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891 Leather Bound