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#1

“People make their own worlds.”
― Eva Ibbotson

tags: inspirational

#2

“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

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

16944 likes

#3

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

tags: wisdom

3773 likes

#4

“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Ladies of the Corridor

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#5

“As I moved through my life as a statue and later as a musician, I started to understand. There’s a difference between wanting to be looked at and wanting to be seen.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

tags: afp, amanda-palmer, the-art-of-asking

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#6

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

tags: good, writing

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#7

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

tags: dark-humor, humor, suicide

2225 likes

#8

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

17495 likes

#9

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#10

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, favorite-books, gaiman

10 likes

#11

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

9634 likes

#12

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: goodbye

5405 likes

#13

“How we need another soul to cling to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: amity, companionship, loneliness

1953 likes

#14

“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

tags: writing

109 likes

#15

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: depression-silence

5230 likes

#16

“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: enthralled, obsession, slavery

2179 likes

#17

“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

1653 likes

#18

“What did my fingers do before they held him?”
― Sylvia Plath

1398 likes

#19

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: writing, writing-process

1541 likes

#20

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

tags: drinking, drunken-behaviour, humor

1310 likes

#21

“If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#22

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

tags: horticulture, puns

817 likes

#23

“Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”
― Dorothy Parker

586 likes

#24

“Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”
― Dorothy Parker

376 likes

#25

“Excuse my dust.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: epitaph, humor

72 likes

#26

“First I brush my teeth and then I sharpen my tongue.”
― Oscar Levant

tags: misattributed-dorothy-parker

24 likes

#27

“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

tags: writing

6452 likes

#28

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

3675 likes

#29

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#30

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

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