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#1

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

tags: writing

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#2

“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

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#3

“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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#4

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

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#5

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: humor, writing

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#6

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: censorship, freedom, writers-block, writing

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#7

“I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.”
― Craig Claiborne

tags: on-writing, words, writing

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#8

“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

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#9

“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

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#10

“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

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#11

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: forgotten, on-writing, writing, writing-advice

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#12

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

tags: on-writing, words, writing

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#13

“You can fix anything but a blank page.”
― Nora Roberts

tags: on-writing, storytelling, writing

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#14

“I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."

(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913)”
― D.H. Lawrence, Letters

tags: humor, spite, writing

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#15

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: books, truth

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#16

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

tags: age

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#17

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

tags: illusions, life

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#18

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inventing-humor

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#19

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
― Mark Twain

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#20

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

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#21

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain

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#22

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#23

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-reading

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#24

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, men, women

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#25

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

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#26

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

tags: bravery, dog, famous, inspirational, misattributed-dwight-eisenhower, misattributed-mark-twain, valour

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#27

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-facts

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#28

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

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#29

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

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#30

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-children

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