...Quotables @ Bookshelf ...

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“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
― bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

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"I did masses of opiates religiously.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

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“If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.”
― Nicole Christie, Falling for the Ghost of You

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“I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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“We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

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" See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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" There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

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“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”
― Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

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“It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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“I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

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“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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“The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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“I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

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“Paper is more patient than man.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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“Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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"A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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“But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being