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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Natasha Mostert
    “I believe that there is luminosity hiding in the shadow of the mundane. And things that hover at the periphery of our vision. If that’s magic, then I believe in it.”
    ― Natasha Mostert
    tags: magic
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    Sylvester Stallone
    “Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.”
    ― Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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  • #5
    “People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.”
    ― Luciano Pavarotti
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  • #6
    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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  • #7
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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  • #8
    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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  • #9
    “A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-roald-dahl, paraphrase-of-horace, play, relaxation
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  • #10
    Nora Roberts
    “If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
    ― Nora Roberts
    tags: inspirational
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  • #11
    Ray Bradbury
    “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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  • #12
    Stephen King
    “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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  • #13
    Stephen King
    “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: hardwork, talent
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  • #14
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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  • #15
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen
    tags: fairy-tales
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  • #16
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “Where words fail, music speaks.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen
    tags: music, power-of-music
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  • #17
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130145 likes

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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #19
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Stephen King
    “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
    ― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew
    tags: reading, writing
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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  • #22
    Stephen King
    “I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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  • #24
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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  • #25
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #26
    Jeri Smith-Ready
    “Son, hiding the truth is just the coward's way to lie.”
    ― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade
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  • #27
    Lisa Kessler
    “If I were trying to sweep you off your feet, you'd be swept. Period. - Adam from Moonlight”
    ― Lisa Kessler, Moonlight
    tags: paranormal-romance-werewolves
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    Lisa Kessler
    “I didn't have a great grasp of what guys considered a "come hither" look, so maybe I gave him one. I'd thought it was a "leave me the hell alone" look, but who knew. ~ Lana from Moonlight”
    ― Lisa Kessler, Moonlight
    tags: paranormal-romance, shifters, urban-fantasy
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  • #29
    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Lisa Kessler
    “The sound of your voice makes the chaos around me vanish. The smell of your hair calms my soul. The sight of your smile tames the wolf inside of me, and touching your skin…” He glanced at our joined hands. “Touching your skin makes the broken parts of me whole.” - Aren from Hunter's Moon”
    ― Lisa Kessler, Hunter's Moon
    tags: paranormal-romance, romance, shifter, werewolf-paranormal-romance
    11 likes



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