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    Lilith Saintcrow
    “Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs.”
    ― Lilith Saintcrow
    tags: writing
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    Devon Monk
    “Whether you approach your dreams on soft feet or in a breathless run, just so long as you acknowledge that your dreams are valuable and worthy of pursuing, then you’ve made it.”
    ― Devon Monk
    tags: dreams
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: guidance
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    Alice Walker
    “Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. ”
    ― Alice Walker
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    Hugh Prather
    “If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.”
    ― Hugh Prather
    tags: writing
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    Alfred Kazin
    “One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.”
    ― Alfred Kazin
    tags: writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: inspirational
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    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    ― August Wilson
    tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: nonsense, nothing, talk
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    ― Jack London
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    Mel Brooks
    “Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”
    ― Mel Brooks
    tags: talent, writing
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    Marcel Proust
    “Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Time Regained
    tags: insight, readers, self-awareness, self-recognition, writers, writing
    116 likes

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    Richard Bach
    “A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
    ― Richard Bach
    tags: editing, richard-bach, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
    ― Anais Nin
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    “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
    Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
    Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
    Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
    Who has left the world better than he found it,
    Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
    Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
    Whose life was an inspiration;
    Whose memory a benediction.”
    ― Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People And by them contributed as a Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book HEART THROBS
    tags: life, misattributed-to-emerson, success, widely-misattributed
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet
    voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
    ― Mary Anne Radmacher
    tags: inspirational
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    Robert Jordan
    “Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
    ― Robert Jordan
    tags: hidden-riches
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    Robert Jordan
    “Til shade is gone,
    til water is gone
    Into the shadow with teeth bared
    Screaming defiance with the last breath
    To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn
    tags: bad-ass, inspirational
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    Robert Jordan
    “Read and find out.”
    ― Robert Jordan
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Jim Butcher
    “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
    ― Jim Butcher
    tags: family
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    Jim Butcher
    “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
    ― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
    tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen
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    Jim Butcher
    “It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon
    tags: fear
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    Jim Butcher
    “Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: harry-dresden, thomas-raith, work
    269 likes

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    Jim Butcher
    “But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”
    ― Jim Butcher, White Night
    tags: cowardice, harry-dresden, inaction, life, molly-carpenter
    353 likes



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