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#1

“I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.”
― Dee Henderson, The Healer

tags: inspirational, love, romantic

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#2

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.  ”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

822 likes

#3

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#4

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: humor, talking, writers

4820 likes

#5

“A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)”
― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 1

tags: humor, kimono, novelists, shigure, writers

96 likes

#6

“Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: inspirational, j-k-rowling, writers, writing, writing-inspiration

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#7

“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”
― Margaret Chittenden

tags: brainstorm, chittenden, crazy, margaret, room, writers

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#8

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
― Junot Diaz

tags: inspirational, writers, writers-on-writing, writing

257 likes

#9

“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.”
― Red Haircrow

tags: creative-process, creative-thinking, creative-writing, creativity, individuality, life, life-lessons, reality, writers, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart, writing-process

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#10

“. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.”
― Kim Addonizio

tags: authors, poetry, writers, writing

84 likes

#11

“I wasn't born to cook or clean,
but to read and write,
if you don't like me the way I am,
then go fly a kite.”
― Besa Kosova

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#12

“Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there.”
― Jef Mallett

tags: writers, writing

50 likes

#13

“All writers are insane!”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

tags: humor, insanity, writers

124 likes

#14

“Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”
― A. Lee Martinez

tags: writer-quotes, writers, writers-on-writing, writing-life

94 likes

#15

“Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.”
― Charlotte Brontë

tags: writers, writing

31 likes

#16

“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: books, fame, lolita, names, obscure, writers

70 likes

#17

“A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.”
― William Faulkner

tags: humor, writers

42 likes

#18

“With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

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#19

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: characters, poetic, poetry, prose, writers

57 likes

#20

“Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.”
― Italo Calvino

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#21

“The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten.”
― Roman Payne

tags: admiration, authors, brides, desire, funny, humor, humour, marriage, payne, roman, weddings, writers

40 likes

#22

“Writers turn dreams into print.”
― James A. Michener, Writer's Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishing

tags: writers

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#23

“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: on-writing, writers

289 likes

#24

“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing.

Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle.

A writer who writes, knows peace, lives connected to truth.

Not writing is ache, betrayal, death of the soul and imagination.”
― Jamie Weise

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#25

“He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: art, creativity, failure, fantasy, impossible, writers, writing

39 likes

#26

“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”
― Jean Little

tags: writers, writing

43 likes

#27

“I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.”
― L. M. Montgomery

tags: writers

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#28

“And on the pedestal these words appear: 
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: 
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
 Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay 
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare 
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

tags: egypt, epic, hubris, irony, mighty, ozymandias, poet, warning

66 likes

#29

“Ozymandias"

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue With Other Poems

tags: poetry

324 likes

#30

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

tags: soul, writing

671 likes

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