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  • #1
    Voltaire
    “The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
    Voltaire

  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
    Hemingway, Ernest

  • #3
    Sophy Burnham
    “I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.”
    Sophy Burnham

  • #4
    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #7
    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

  • #8
    Chris Abani
    “You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.”
    Chris Abani

  • #9
    Wallace Stegner
    “We write to make sense of it all.”
    Wallace Stegner

  • #10
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #11
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #12
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #13
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #14
    Isaac Asimov
    “I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #15
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #16
    “I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
    James Michener

  • #17
    Ray Bradbury
    “My stories run up and bite me on the leg—I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish the idea lets go and runs off.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #18
    Isaac Asimov
    “Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
    Issac Asimov

  • #19
    Isaac Asimov
    “Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
    Issac Asimov

  • #20
    Dean Koontz
    “Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.”
    Dean Koontz

  • #21
    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

  • #22
    Rita Mae Brown
    “Writers will happen in the best of families.”
    Rita Mae Brown

  • #23
    Ray Bradbury
    “Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #24
    Ray Bradbury
    “You fail only if you stop writing.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #25
    “I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”
    James Mitchner

  • #26
    Joseph Heller
    “Every writer I know has trouble writing. ”
    Joseph Heller

  • #27
    Graham Greene
    “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
    Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

  • #29
    Enrique Jardiel Poncela
    “When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”
    Enrique Jardiel Poncela

  • #30
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #31
    Milan Kundera
    “For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?”
    Milan Kundera



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