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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing 23237 likes Like Maya Angelou There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou tags: inspirational, stories, writing 18020 likes Like Madeleine L'Engle You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grownups, then you write it for children. Madeleine L'Engle tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing 12598 likes Like Ernest Hemingway There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway tags: good, writing 12488 likes Like J.D. Salinger 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 tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing 12485 likes Like Maya Angelou A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Maya Angelou tags: inspirational, writing 12352 likes Like Toni Morrison 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 11149 likes Like Stephen King 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 8153 likes Like Virginia Woolf Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own tags: freedom, women, writing 7095 likes Like Mark Twain 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 6652 likes Like Saul Bellow You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. Saul Bellow tags: imagination, inspiration, writing 4722 likes Like Jack Kerouac One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums tags: dharma, simplicity, writing 4652 likes Like Mark Twain The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain tags: writing 4651 likes Like Lloyd Alexander Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. Lloyd Alexander tags: fantasy, inspirational, writing 4632 likes Like Sylvia Plath And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath tags: writing 4567 likes Like Robert Frost 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 4319 likes Like Anas Nin We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. Anas Nin tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing 4312 likes Like Oscar Wilde Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray tags: books, morality, reading, writing 4211 likes Like Ray Bradbury You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing tags: writing 3856 likes Like William Faulkner Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window. William Faulkner tags: reading, writing 3728 likes Like Stephen King Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King tags: writing 3671 likes Like E.L. Doctorow

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. E.L. Doctorow tags: writing 3416 likes Like Stephen King The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear. Stephen King, Different Seasons tags: writing 3358 likes Like Philip Pullman After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. Philip Pullman tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing 3214 likes Like Anton Chekhov Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing 3134 likes Like Cassandra Clare We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you. Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince tags: dreams, letters, love, love-at-first-sight, power-of-words, writing 3053 likes Like Winston Churchill History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill tags: history, humor, writing 2985 likes Like

Aldous Huxley Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- theyll go through anything. You read and youre pierced. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World tags: reading, words, writing 2847 likes Like Louis L'Amour Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. Louis L'Amour tags: inspirational, writing 2846 likes Like Kurt Vonnegut We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. Kurt Vonnegut tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing 2689 likes Like

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