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“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
― Isaac Asimov

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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

“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”
― Jules Renard

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“ …when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest…everyone in the world is different, and that’s ok…”
― Spider Robinson

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your arm. Call it the impulse to make something out of nothing, call it an obsessive-compulsive disorder, call it logorrhea. Have you been in a bookstore lately? Have you seen what these authors are doing, the mountainous piles of the flakes of themselves they're leaving behind, like the neatly labeled jars of shit, piss, and toenail clippings one of John Barth's characters bequeathed to his wife, the ultimate expression of his deepest self?”
― T.C. Boyle

“I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.”
― Richard Bausch

“I am the perfect version of me.”
― Besa Kosova