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  • #1
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #2
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #6
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #8
    Stephen  King
    “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
    Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

  • #9
    Steve Jobs
    “Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #10
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #11
    Peter De Vries
    “I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
    Peter De Vries

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.”
    Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

  • #13
    Nora Roberts
    “You can fix anything but a blank page.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #14
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #15
    Richard Bach
    “A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
    Richard Bach

  • #16
    Aaron Sorkin
    “I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.”
    Aaron Sorkin

  • #17
    Iris Murdoch
    “Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
    Iris Murdoch

  • #18
    George Eliot
    “Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'

    I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.”
    George Eliot

  • #19
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #20
    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #21
    Jules Renard
    “Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
    Jules Renard

  • #22
    Pico Iyer
    “Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
    Pico Iyer

  • #23
    Tom Bissell
    “A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”
    Tom Bissell

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”
    Jane Austen

  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”
    Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

  • #27
    Stephen  King
    “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
    Stephen King

  • #28
    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

  • #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
    Don Roff
    “Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.”
    Don Roff



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