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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #3
    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #4
    Stephen  King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #5
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can make anything by writing.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Julia Quinn
    “You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
    Julia Quinn

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    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

  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #13
    E.B. White
    “Writing is both mask and unveiling.”
    E.B. White

  • #14
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #15
    Termina Ashton
    “Imagination is Everything!”
    Termina Ashton

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    Jessica Mitford
    “You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
    Jessica Mitford

  • #19
    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

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    Plato
    “Writing is the geometry of the soul. ”
    Plato

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    Paul Terry

  • #24
    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #26
    Antonio Gramsci
    “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
    Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters

  • #27
    David J. Schwartz
    “Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.”
    David Schwartz

  • #28
    “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”
    Roger Crawford

  • #29
    “It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.”
    Robin Black, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

  • #30
    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



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