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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“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

“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

“It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.”
― Ariel Gore

“My witness is the empty sky.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”
― Lauren Bacall, By Myself and Then Some

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
― Moli

“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

“What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.”
― Burton Rascoe

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie

“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“Writing is both mask and unveiling.”
― E.B. White

“Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. ”
― James Norman Hall

“Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. ”
― Franklin P. Adams

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. ”
― Samuel Butler

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”
― Stephen King

“Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”
― Erica Jong

“I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.”
― Isak Dinesen

“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”
― Andre Gide, The Immoralist

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

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

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations