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  • #1
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
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    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    ― Dave Eggers
    tags: books, time
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  • #3
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #5
    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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  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44320 likes

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  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #10
    Bill Watterson
    “You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
    What mood is that?
    Last-minute panic.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: procrastination
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  • #11
    Rita Mae Brown
    “If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
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  • #12
    Alan Dean Foster
    “The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
    ― Alan Dean Foster
    tags: procrastination, writing
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  • #13
    Paul Rudnick
    “As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.”
    ― Paul Rudnick
    tags: laziness, procrastination, writing
    133 likes

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  • #14
    Don Marquis
    “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday”
    ― Don Marquis
    tags: human-behavior, procrastination
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  • #15
    Don Roff
    “Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.”
    ― Don Roff
    tags: adhd, editing, efficiency, funny, humor, panic, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastination, random, work, writing
    44 likes

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  • #16
    Bill Watterson
    “A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”
    ― Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere
    tags: avoidance, calvin, calvin-and-hobbes, procrastination
    307 likes

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  • #17
    Don Roff
    “I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.”
    ― Don Roff
    tags: editing, humor, revision, writing
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  • #18
    Betsy Lerner
    “When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.”
    ― Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees
    tags: editing, writers
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: editing
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    stephanie roberts
    “Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.”
    ― Stephanie Roberts
    tags: editing, fiction, fiction-writing
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow--a test you can't cheat on.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: editing
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  • #22
    Bridie Clark
    “I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I loved, daydreaming that someday a brilliant talent might see me as the person who 'made her book possible' or 'enhanced every page with editorial wisdom and insight.' Could I be the Maxwell Perkins to some future Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe?”
    ― Bridie Clark, Because She Can
    tags: careers, dreams, editing, fitzgerald, hemingway, wolfe
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    Lynn Povich
    “I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality. I had lots of ideas and a strong sense of structure, and I enjoyed working with talented writers, relishing the give-and-take in making their work better.”
    ― Lynn Povich, The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
    tags: editing
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  • #24
    Carol Fisher Saller
    “There should be no crying in copyediting.”
    ― Carol Fisher Saller, The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago
    tags: copy-editing, crying, editing
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  • #25
    Dark Jar Tin Zoo
    “Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
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    ― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
    tags: absence, amazement, amazing, commas, editing, funny, god, humor, love, lover, relationships, sex, sex-god, transform, transformation, word-junkies, writer, writing
    302 likes

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  • #26
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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  • #27
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil
    tags: zarek
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  • #28
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Old enough to know better, pissed enough not to care. (Jaden)”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Bad Moon Rising
    tags: jaden
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “You know when people say fine, it generally means ‘leave me the hell alone because I don’t want to talk about what’s really bothering me.' (Susan)”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dark Side of the Moon
    443 likes



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