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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole lif — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall grasses,and even elep — Maya Angelou
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. — William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. — Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape — Graham Greene, Ways of Escape
E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headl — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life. — Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty — W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? — Charles Bukowski, Post Office
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. — Tennessee Williams
Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this ach — Neil Gaiman
I do not love men: I love what devours them. — André Gide, Prometheus Illbound
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Red Haircrow
You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ. — Woody Allen