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#1

“Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: inspirational

3880 likes

#2

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: on-writing, reading, writing

1380 likes

#3

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

tags: writing, writing-process

1542 likes

#4

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#5

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

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#6

“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: reading, writing

578 likes

#7

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32151 likes

#8

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

tags: writing

1358 likes

#9

“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: cynics, humor, life, romantics, writing

983 likes

#10

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”
― Roald Dahl

tags: writing

791 likes

#11

“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

16947 likes

#12

“All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: writing

1143 likes

#13

“When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

793 likes

#14

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

tags: books, writing

599 likes

#15

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13095 likes

#16

“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'

[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]”
― Philip Pullman

tags: atheism, atheist, difficulty, possibility, sarcasm, spiritual, spirituality, understanding, writing

452 likes

#17

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20722 likes

#18

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

6806 likes

#19

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

tags: humor, writing

348 likes

#20

“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

6448 likes

#21

“You are what you write.”
― Helvy Tiana Rosa, Risalah Cinta

tags: writing

349 likes

#22

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

5917 likes

#23

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

tags: humor, inspirational, writing

306 likes

#24

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
― Cornelia Funke

tags: books, character, cornelia-funke, existentialism, words, writers, writing

1186 likes

#25

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing

4564 likes

#26

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

937 likes

#27

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5738 likes

#28

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

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#29

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: college, semicolons, writing

3241 likes

#30

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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