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You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya? Lynda Barry
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again. Flannery O'Connor
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody. Leonora Carrington
Gustave Flaubert quote: "When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a..."
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women Gustave Flaubert
Beatrix Potter quote: "There is something delicious about writing the first words of..."
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. Beatrix Potter
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart. J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger quote: "when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck..."
when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose. J. D. Salinger
But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten centuries ahead? Yevgeny Zamyatin
What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man. Terry Prachett
Charles Baudelaire quote: "I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost..."
I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so. Charles Baudelaire
As Christians, we must see that just because an artist -even a great artist- portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true. Francis Schaeffer
Terry Prachett quote: "Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought..."
Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it. Terry Prachett
Anne Sexton quote: "When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do."
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do. Anne Sexton
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a... Tobias Wolff
When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way with you too? These letters are part of us now, part of our history, a reminder forever that we made it through this time. Thank you for helping me survive this year, but more than that, thank you in advance for all the years to come. Nicholas Sparks

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