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    Christopher Paolini
    “Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eldest
    tags: inspirational
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
    tags: love
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    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
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    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
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    R.K. King
    “Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.”
    ― R.K. King
    tags: author-quotes, inspirational, writing, writing-advice, writing-books, writing-inspiration, writing-life
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    Paul Di Filippo
    “Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”
    ― Paul Di Filippo, How To Write Science Fiction
    tags: science-fiction, scifi, writing, writing-skills
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    Les Brown
    “you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great”
    ― Les Brown
    tags: inspirational, motivational, writers-quotes, writing-inspiration
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    “A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.”
    ― Stephanie Lennox, The Authorship Program
    tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-inspiration, writing-life, writing-process
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    Archana Kapoor Nagpal | Zoya
    “Writer’s block is like a full moon behind the rain clouds.”
    ― Archana Kapoor Nagpal
    tags: writing-inspiration
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    Joyce Rachelle
    “Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material.”
    ― Joyce Rachelle
    tags: forgetting-the-past, inspirational, past, writer, writing, writing-inspiration
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    Amanda L. Bayley
    “Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.”
    ― A.L. Mabry
    tags: authors, writing, writing-advice, writing-inspiration
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    Molly Looby
    “A love of writing is far greater than any word count.”
    ― Molly Looby
    tags: inspirational, molly-looby, writing, writing-advice, writing-inspiration
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    Catherine Carrigan
    “Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.”
    ― Catherine Carrigan
    tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-life, writing-process
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    William Faulkner
    “Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: authors, writing, writing-advice
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  • #15
    “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.”
    ― Jim Jarmuscdh
    tags: writing-advice, writing-process-writing-advice, writing-quotes
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    Peter James West
    “Raise the bar. Don't duck under it.”
    ― Peter James West
    tags: writing-advice, writing-life, writing-process
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: authors, books, creativity, gaiman, neil-gaiman, tumblr, writing, writing-advice, writing-books, writing-life
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    Tracy Kidder
    “When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.”
    ― Tracy Kidder, Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    Gillian Marchenko
    “Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.”
    ― Gillian Marchenko, Sun Shine Down: A Memoir
    tags: memoir, writing-craft, writing-life-life, writing-process
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    Munia Khan
    “My pen beats faster as I write with my heart”
    ― Munia Khan
    tags: beats, faster, happyquotes, heart, heartbeat, pen, write, writer, writers-life, writers-quotes, writing, writing-from-the-heart, writing-process
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    Midnight Taylor
    “Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.”
    ― Midnight Taylor
    tags: humor, truths, writing-process
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    Sarah Orne Jewett
    “Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”
    ― Sarah Orne Jewett
    tags: write
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    Truman Capote
    “You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
    ― Truman Capote
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  • #24
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
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  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: writing
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  • #26
    “Books fall open, you fall in.”
    ― David T.W. McCord
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  • #27
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
    10790 likes

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  • #28
    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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  • #30
    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: destiny
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