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“It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. ”
― William Faulkner

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
― William Faulkner

“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
― William Faulkner

“Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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

“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
― Jessica Mitford

“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

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”
― Jules Renard

“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”
― Gore Vidal

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...”
― Walter Mosley

“Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”
― Groucho Marx

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays

“Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.”
― Groucho Marx

“If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
― Groucho marx

“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”
― Groucho Marx

“Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.”
― Groucho Marx

“Before I speak, I have something important to say.”
― Groucho Marx

“I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.”
― Groucho Marx

“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
― Groucho Marx

“She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.”
― Groucho Marx

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I even love the smell of books.”
― Adriana Trigiani

“Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.”
― Groucho Marx