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Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace. Franz Kafka
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. Thomas Hardy
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? Anne Lamott
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? George Orwell
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live. Sylvia Plath
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. Henry David Thoreau
Emile Zola quote: "If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist,..."
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. Emile Zola
Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right? Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?' Don't be silly. You have a tank, right? Dave Barry
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "Death should take me while I am in the mood."
Death should take me while I am in the mood. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Meg Cabot quote: "Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed..."
Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising. Meg Cabot
Think how you love me. I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night. F. Scott Fitzgerald
And since I'm well and on the bum again & aint got nothing else to do, but roam, long-faced, the real America, with my unreal heart, here I am eager and ready. Jack Kerouac
Orson Scott Card quote: "Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it...."
Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. Orson Scott Card
Around 6 p. m.: the apartment is warm, clean, well-lit, pleasant. I make it that way, energetically, devotedly (enjoying it bitterly): henceforth and forever I am my own mother. Roland Barthes

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