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Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this. — Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irres — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet
I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue.Now, I can’t look at your name — Coco J. Ginger
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the — Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall grasses,and even elep — Maya Angelou
I do not love men: I love what devours them. — André Gide, Prometheus Illbound
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Red Haircrow
Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires e — Vicktor Alexander
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we s — Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. — Muriel Rukeyser
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that — Junot Díaz
Quiet people have the loudest minds. — Stephen King
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdu — J.K. Rowling
Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world th — Jacob Nordby, Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to live your best life now
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. — Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket — David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to — Lili St. Crow