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    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
    tags: writing
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can make anything by writing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: writing
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: criticism, humor, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: attributed-no-source, writing
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    Stephen King
    “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Julia Quinn
    “You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
    ― Julia Quinn
    tags: romance, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: censorship, freedom, writers-block, writing
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All I need is a sheet of paper
    and something to write with, and then
    I can turn the world upside down.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: writing
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: books, writing
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    E.B. White
    “Writing is both mask and unveiling.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: writing
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: writing
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    Termina Ashton
    “Imagination is Everything!”
    ― Termina Ashton
    tags: art, imagination, writing
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    Elmore Leonard
    “My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.”
    ― Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
    tags: creative-process, focus, writing
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
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    Jessica Mitford
    “You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
    ― Jessica Mitford
    tags: muck-raking, social-action, writing
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    Isaac Babel
    “No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”
    ― Isaac Babel, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
    tags: writing
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    Michael Connelly
    “You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."

    ("The Castle")”
    ― Michael Connelly
    tags: perseverance, writing, writing-craft
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    Plato
    “Writing is the geometry of the soul. ”
    ― Plato
    tags: writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #23
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: optimism
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    Antonio Gramsci
    “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
    ― Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters
    tags: intellect, intelligence, optimism, pessimism, science, will
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    David J. Schwartz
    “Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.”
    ― David Schwartz
    tags: conquering-defeat, optimism, perspective
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  • #28
    “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”
    ― Roger Crawford
    tags: challenges, choices, defeat, optimism
    191 likes

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  • #29
    “It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.”
    ― Robin Black, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
    tags: relationships, short-story
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: cats, humor, life
    5174 likes



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