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Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes. Fernando Pessoa
Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get the same thing... Unique as every letter is, the point each writer reaches is the same: I want love and I'm afraid I'll never get it. It's hard to answer those letters because I'm an advice columnist, not a fortune-teller. I have words instead of a crystal ball. I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise that you will. I can only say you are... Cheryl Strayed
L. M. Montgomery quote: "never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral."
never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral. L. M. Montgomery
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are..."
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living. Robert A. Heinlein
Tobias Wolff quote: "Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life,..."
Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing. Tobias Wolff
Consciously or unconsciously, the reader is dissatisfied with being told only what is not; the reader wishes to be told what is... If your every sentence admits a doubt, your writing will lack authority. William Strunk, Jr.
I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The kiss, dear maid ! thy lip has left. Shall never part from mine, Till happier hours restore the gift. Untainted back to thine. Thy parting glance, which fondly beams, An equal love may see: The tear that from thine eyelid streams. Can weep no change in me. I ask no pledge to make me blest. In gazing when alone; Nor one memorial for a breast, Whose thoughts are all thine own. Nor need I write --- to tell the tale. My pen were doubly weak: Oh ! what can idle words avail, Unless the... George Byron
September 1973, that's where this novel begins. That's the entrance. We'll just hope there's an exit. If there isn't one, there wouldn't be any point in writing anything. Haruki Murakami
Ernest Hemingway quote: "There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great..."
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing! Ernest Hemingway
You sold a story last week," said Pettit, "about a gun fight in an Arizona mining town in which the hero drew his Colt's .45 and shot seven bandits as fast as they came in the door. Now, if a six-shooter coul?"Oh, well," said I, "that's different. Arizona is a long way from New York. I could have a man stabbed with a lariat or chased by a pair of chaparreras if I wanted to, and it wouldn't be noticed until the usual error-sharp from around McAdams Junction isolates the erratum and writes in... O. Henry
Raymond Chandler quote: "The challenge is to write about real things magically."
The challenge is to write about real things magically. Raymond Chandler
We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. Malcolm Gladwell
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It’s like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love. Truman Capote
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately..."
There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham

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