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    Anne Rice
    “Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: kindness
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    Anne Rice
    “And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”
    ― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm
    tags: books, hope, lestat, rescue, safety, universe
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    Anne Rice
    “I was good and bad, but never wicked.”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: applys-to-me, inspirational
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    Anne Rice
    “We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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    Nora Roberts
    “If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
    ― Nora Roberts
    tags: inspirational
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    Nora Roberts
    “I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”
    ― Nora Roberts
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    Nora Roberts
    “You can't edit a blank page”
    ― Nora Roberts
    tags: nora-roberts, writing
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    Nora Roberts
    “I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.”
    ― Nora Roberts
    tags: writing-craft
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    Nora Roberts
    “If you don't ask, the answer is always no.”
    ― Nora Roberts
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  • #10
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: poetry, prose, 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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    Howard Nemerov
    “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
    ― Howard Nemerov
    tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing
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    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    ― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts
    tags: alchemy, writing
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    Meg Cabot
    “Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
    ― Meg Cabot
    tags: writing
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    Lorrie Moore
    “A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
    ― Lorrie Moore
    tags: novels, short-stories, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: writing
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    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: civilization, writers, writing
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    John Steinbeck
    “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
    ― John Steinbeck
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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    Peggy Ullman Bell
    “Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.”
    ― Peggy Ullman Bell
    tags: writing-humor
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    Peggy Ullman Bell
    “Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.”
    ― Peggy Ullman Bell
    tags: writing-humor
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  • #27
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Joan Bauer
    “My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
    ― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road
    tags: books, library
    785 likes

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  • #30
    Confucius
    “You cannot open a book without learning something.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: books, learning, philosopher
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