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#1

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: ink, invisible, pages, writing

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#2

“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
― Steve Martin

tags: drinking, humor, writing

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#3

“He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: writing

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#4

“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: aliteracy, bad-reviews, self-publishing, writing

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#5

“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

tags: clichés, conversation, double-standards, feminism, fiction, gender, men, misogyny, natural, prejudice, stereotypes, women, women-writers, writing

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#6

“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: writing

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#7

“I want to see thirst
In the syllables,
Tough fire
In the sound;
Feel through the dark
For the scream.”
― Pablo Neruda

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#8

“it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: philosophy, writing

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#9

“You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: ideas, writing

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#10

“What is your advice to young writers?”
“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

tags: advice, alcohol, authors, bukowski, cigarettes, drink, funny, humor, ironic, irony, sarcasm, sex, smoke, writers, writing, writing-process

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#11

“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.”
― Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

tags: advice, art, crayons, creativity, humor, writing

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#12

“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

tags: language, speech, writing

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#13

“CALVIN:
Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: writing

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#14

“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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#15

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: as-you-like-it, celia, nature, poetry

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#16

“Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest--and when I say thinking I mean thinking--you and I must do it.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

tags: brain, fluff, owl, rabbit, thinking

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#17

“When the owl sings, the night is silent. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence)”
― Charles de Leusse

tags: hibou, night, nuit, owl, silence, silent

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#18

“It is just my imagination that flies,
While she is wrapped up in her bedsheets
like a nest.”
― Kiera Woodhull, Chaos of the Mind

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#19

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: allegory, bloody, buzzard, culture, hawk, iceberg, knowledge, owl, popinjay, serious, seriousness, solemn, success, wisdom, writer, writing

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#20

“It tales two to Tao.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

tags: cycles, dance, dao, energy, forces, harmony, life, life-force, nature, path, physical, physical-and-spiritual, spiritual, synergy, tao, way, yin-and-yang, yin-yang

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#21

“It takes two to Tao.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

tags: attitude, cosmic-dance, cycle, cycle-of-life, dance, dao, energy, enlightenment, envision, force, intuitive-wisdom, life, meaning-of-life, nature, path, physical-and-spiritual, principles, route, seasons, tao, taoist, vision, way, yin-and-yang, yin-yang

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#22

“Well, there would be no sound
if we shout on the background.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

tags: agreement, calm, centered, clarity, communication, effortlessly, gentleness, grounded, kindness, light, liwing, peace, peaceful, physical, silence, smooth, soft, softness, sound, spiritual, tender, tone, vibration, vocal, whisper, wisdom, yin-and-yang, zen

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#23

“To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.”
― O. R. Melling

tags: instinct, self, strength, the-book-of-dreams, wild, wolves

187 likes

#24

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: on-writing, reading, writing

1380 likes

#25

“I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.”
― Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking

tags: a-line-made-by-walking, description, foxes, nature, sara-baume

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#26

“Among the many fox magics her sobo had delighted in describing, the one that had most captured her imagination was the power to alter form. The most eldritch among foxes could turn (or so her grandmother would claim in that musical croak that was her storytelling voice) into human beings. The they would creep into the lives of lonely and impressionable souls and offer them long-sought affection.”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees

tags: foxes, loneliness, metamorphosis, stories

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#27

“A lost road will remember your footsteps because someday you may want to return, tracing the way.”
― Munia Khan

tags: back, footstep, footsteps, get, lost, may, might, path, remember, return, road, road-quotes, roads, someday, trace, want, way

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#28

“You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation.
There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

tags: journey, reckoning, reconciliation, return, revenge, wounds

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#29

“The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.”
― David O. McKay

tags: character, david-o-mckay, goals

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#30

“I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon

tags: aspirations, death, funny-but-sad, goals, humor, life

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