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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all. Ann Patchett
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing. Arthur Golden
And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and provide philosophical models for the betterment of mankind? E. L. Doctorow
Elie Wiesel quote: "Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go..."
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness? Elie Wiesel
George Sand quote: "The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best,..."
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best. George Sand
Jean Rhys quote: "I will write my name in fire red."
I will write my name in fire red. Jean Rhys
My favorite “trick” is to stop writing at a point where I know that I can pick up easily the next day. I’ll stop in mid-paragraph, often in midsentence. It makes getting out of bed so much easier, because I know that all I’ll have to do to be productive is complete the sentence. And by then I’ll be seated at my desk, coffee and Oreo cookie at hand, the morning’s inertia overcome. There’s an added advantage: The human brain hates incomplete sentences. All night my mind will have secretly... Erik Larson
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love. And sing them loud even in the dead of night. William Shakespeare
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Victor Hugo
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door. Michael Ondaatje
As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you. Elizabeth Gilbert
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook..."
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please. Barbara Kingsolver
Neil Gaiman quote: "Obviously, until you write Fuck It, We're All Going To Die,..."
Obviously, until you write Fuck It, We're All Going To Die, the Newbery Medal is still going to go to people like me. Neil Gaiman
Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion. Antonia Fraser

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