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  • #1
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    E.B. White
    “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”
    E.B. White

  • #4
    Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage. ”
    Henri Matisse

  • #5
    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

  • #8
    William Faulkner
    “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
    William Faulkner

  • #9
    William Faulkner
    “Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
    William Faulkner

  • #10
    Anne Tyler
    “If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #11
    Richard Bach
    “A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
    Richard Bach

  • #12
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #13
    Joseph Heller
    “Every writer I know has trouble writing. ”
    Joseph Heller

  • #14
    Stephen  King
    “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #15
    Libba Bray
    “Write like it matters, and it will.”
    Libba Bray, NY 2010

  • #16
    Jodi Picoult
    “You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”
    Jodi Picoult

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #18
    Beverly Cleary
    “If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”
    Beverly Cleary

  • #19
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #22
    Lewis Carroll
    “‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass



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