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  • #1
    Richard Brautigan
    “Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”
    Richard Brautigan

  • #2
    Richard Brautigan
    “Love Poem
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    It's so nice
    to wake up in the morning
    all alone
    and not have to tell somebody
    you love them
    when you don't love them
    any more.”
    Richard Brautigan

  • #3
    Richard Brautigan
    “all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.”
    richard brautigan

  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #5
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #6
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

  • #7
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #8
    David Foster Wallace
    “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
    David Foster Wallace

  • #9
    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #10
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    Thomas Pynchon

  • #11
    Brian Evenson
    “Truth cannot be imparted," said Kline. "It must be inflicted.”
    Brian Evenson

  • #12
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #13
    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #14
    Herman Melville
    “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
    Herman Melville

  • #15
    Herman Melville
    “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #16
    Herman Melville
    “I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #17
    Herman Melville
    “Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #22
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #23
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #24
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #25
    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

  • #26
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #27
    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    Robert Frost

  • #28
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #29
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #30
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov



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