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#1

“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

#2

“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

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#3

“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.”
― Dan Gutman, From Texas with Love

tags: thankfulness

808 likes

#4

“The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.”
― Martin Cruz Smith

361 likes

#5

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#6

“This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

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#7

“Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.”
― Gail Sheehy

tags: creativity

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#8

“It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.”
― George Saunders, Tenth of December

tags: desire, happiness

298 likes

#9

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

tags: craft, inspirational, muriel-rukeyser, writers

888 likes

#10

“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
― Jean Fritz

1082 likes

#11

“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
― Maria Edgeworth

785 likes

#12

“[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow

621 likes

#13

“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle

tags: beauty, poetry, rhythm

594 likes

#14

“Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Exile

tags: amity, companionship, joy

638 likes

#15

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

2796 likes

#16

“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

20734 likes

#17

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

7950 likes

#18

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

tags: inspirational, writing

4691 likes

#19

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

2348 likes

#20

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

2626 likes

#21

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

3620 likes

#22

“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
― Maya Angelou

943 likes

#23

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

tags: dawn, light, silence

1926 likes

#24

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

tags: expression, finding-your-voice, poetry

2623 likes

#25

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

3195 likes

#26

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

3889 likes

#27

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

2119 likes

#28

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

4854 likes

#29

“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

tags: cats

1677 likes

#30

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

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