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    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
    tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing
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    Carlos Fuentes
    “Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
    ― Carlos Fuentes
    tags: carlos, fuentes, genre, writing
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  • #3
    “Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: writers, writing
    347 likes

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    Garrison Keillor
    “A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: writing
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    Nikki Giovanni
    “I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
    ― Nikki Giovanni
    tags: writing
    225 likes

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    “I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”
    ― James Mitchner
    tags: writing-rewriting
    72 likes

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    Iain M. Banks
    “The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
    ― Iain M. Banks
    tags: fiction, fiction-writing, writing, writing-craft
    249 likes

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    Iain Banks
    “One should never mistake pattern for meaning.”
    ― Iain Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata
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    Frances Burney
    “Her next solicitude was to furnish herself with a well-chosen collection of books: and this employment, which to a lover of literature, young and ardent in its pursuit, is perhaps the mind's first luxury, proved a source of entertainment so fertile and delightful that it left her nothing to wish.”
    ― Fanny Burney, Cecilia
    tags: books
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    Mignon Fogarty
    “If you’re writing a polite command, you don’t need a question mark. Would you please let me do that for you.”
    ― Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl Presents The Ultimate Writing Guide for Students
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: characters, plot
    150 likes

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  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Character is plot, plot is character.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: character, plot
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  • #15
    “But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: plot
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    Kamand Kojouri
    “Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: art, author, books, creative, creativity, destiny, fate, fiction, inspiration, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, literature, plot, quote, reading, script, stories, story, storyteller, storytelling, tell, telling, told, writer, writing, writing-process, writing-quotes
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    John Milton
    “For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
    ― John Milton, Areopagitica
    tags: books, censorship, ideas, intellect
    1535 likes

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    Anne Lamott
    “If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
    tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-life
    403 likes

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    Doris Lessing
    “A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough... People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.”
    ― Doris Lessing
    tags: democracy, independent-thought, indoctrination, libraries, library, thinking, thought
    254 likes

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    Anna Quindlen
    “Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had."

    [Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]”
    ― Anna Quindlen
    tags: creative-process, creativity, originality, point-of-view, uniqueness, writing
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Heinlein's Rules for Writers

    Rule One: You Must Write
    Rule Two: Finish What Your Start
    Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order
    Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market
    Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: writing-advice
    135 likes

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    Stephanie Bond
    “All we can do is make the best decisions we can with the best information we have at that time and place. And learn how to rebound, reinvent, and regroup. Remember—people who seem to move through life with confidence aren’t confident about the outcome of a decision; they’re confident that they can deal with the outcome, good or bad.”
    ― Stephanie Bond
    tags: inspirational
    39 likes

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    Mignon Fogarty
    “In the United States, periods and commas go inside the quotation mark. In Britain, they go outside the quotation mark. Squiggly said, “No.” (United States) Squiggly said, “No”. (Britain)   “No,” said Squiggly. (United States) “No”, said Squiggly. (Britain)”
    ― Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl's Punctuation 911: Your Guide to Writing it Right
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  • #24
    John Milton
    “Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.”
    ― John Milton, Comus
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-thought
    235 likes

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  • #25
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: books, inspirational, on-writing, reading
    2840 likes

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  • #26
    Laura C. Monteiro
    “It only takes one cat – or person – to make another feel welcome and special.”
    ― Laura C. Monteiro, Mariah Makes a Friend
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, diversity
    255 likes

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  • #28
    Thomas Wolfe
    “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
    ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
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  • #29
    “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
    tags: life-lessons, life-philosophy, love
    340 likes



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