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  • #1
    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • #2
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #4
    E.E. Cummings
    “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
    I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
    I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
    and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

    here is the deepest secret nobody knows
    (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
    higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
    and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

    I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #5
    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #6
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #8
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    Robert Frost

  • #10
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #11
    Cornelia Funke
    “So what? All writers are lunatics!”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

  • #12
    Paulo Coelho
    “Tears are words that need to be written.”
    Paulo Coelho

  • #13
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    W. Somerset Maugham

  • #14
    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    E.L. Doctorow

  • #15
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    Craig Claiborne
    “I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.”
    Craig Claiborne

  • #18
    David  Mitchell
    “If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.”
    David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

  • #19
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #20
    Joseph Heller
    “Every writer I know has trouble writing. ”
    Joseph Heller

  • #21
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #22
    Justin Halpern
    “You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.”
    Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

  • #23
    Justin Halpern
    “See, you think I give a shit. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of shit? That's why I look interested.”
    Justin Halpern

  • #24
    Yahtzee Croshaw
    “He seemed to notice for the first time that we weren't exactly rushing to his side, but were mainly watching him as a zoo patron would watch a crazy monkey, curious but ready to move at the first sign of poo-flinging. There was a minute of awkward silence before someone near the back with their head held under their arm said "who's this twat?”
    Yahtzee Croshaw, Mogworld

  • #25
    Yahtzee Croshaw
    “The obedient Pit bull becomes the escaped tiger and it's got a knife”
    Yahtzee Croshaw, Mogworld
    tags: humor

  • #26
    Yahtzee Croshaw
    “His perpetual grin was wider than any I'd ever seen, and that included several guys I'd known at Dreadgrave's with no skin on their faces.”
    Yahtzee Croshaw, Mogworld

  • #27
    Yahtzee Croshaw
    “The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't”
    Yahtzee Croshaw

  • #28
    Yahtzee Croshaw
    “So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.”
    Yahtzee Croshaw

  • #29
    Yahtzee Croshaw
    “Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone is worth substantially more than a human life. Happy new year.”
    Yahtzee Croshaw

  • #30
    Yahtzee Croshaw
    “The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.”
    Yahtzee Croshaw, Jam



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