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#1

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#2

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5738 likes

#3

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5128 likes

#4

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

4686 likes

#5

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

4796 likes

#6

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

4210 likes

#7

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#8

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

tags: life, writing

2189 likes

#9

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
― Stephen King

tags: life-experience, writing, writing-craft

1720 likes

#10

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

1766 likes

#11

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck

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#12

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity, motivational, picasso, rules, writing

2032 likes

#13

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
― Jules Renard

tags: writing

880 likes

#14

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: fiction, money, on-writing, virgin, women, writing

1461 likes

#15

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
― Voltaire

781 likes

#16

“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: clarity, naivete, simplicity, writing

881 likes

#17

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

tags: despair, insightful, writing

472 likes

#18

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32125 likes

#19

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#20

“Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.”
― Fred Rogers

509 likes

#21

“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller

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