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“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
Beatrix PotterWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Beatrix Potter
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
Beatrix Potter
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“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.”
Joss WhedonScreenwriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Joss Whedon
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.”
Joss Whedon
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“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
Ray BradburyAuthor
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Ray Bradbury
“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
Ray Bradbury
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“A word after a word after a word is power.”
Margaret AtwoodPoet
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“A word after a word after a word is power.”
Margaret Atwood
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“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
Annie ProulxNovelist
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Annie Proulx
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
Annie Proulx
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“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
Virginia WoolfWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Virginia Woolf
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
Virginia Woolf
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“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
Neil GaimanAuthor
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Neil Gaiman
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
Neil Gaiman
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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
Ernest HemingwayNovelist
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Ernest Hemingway
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
Ernest Hemingway
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“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
Daphne du MaurierAuthor
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Daphne du Maurier
“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
Daphne du Maurier
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“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Jack LondonNovelist
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Jack London
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London
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“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
Harvey PekarComic book writer
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“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
Harvey Pekar
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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
A. A. MilneAuthor
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by A. A. Milne
“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
A. A. Milne
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“A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.”
A. A. MilneAuthor
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by A. A. Milne
“A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.”
A. A. Milne
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“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
A. A. MilneAuthor
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by A. A. Milne
“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
A. A. Milne
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“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.”
EminemRapper
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Eminem
“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.”
Eminem
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“It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.”
EminemRapper
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Eminem
“It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.”
Eminem
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“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”
Adolf HitlerGerman Politician
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Adolf Hitler
“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”
Adolf Hitler
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“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.”
Agatha ChristieNovelist
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Agatha Christie
“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.”
Agatha Christie
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“I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.”
Aisha TylerActress
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Aisha Tyler
“I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.”
Aisha Tyler
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“The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.”
Alan MooreWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Alan Moore
“The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.”
Alan Moore
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“When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.”
Alan MooreWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Alan Moore
“When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.”
Alan Moore
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“On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.”
Alan MooreWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Alan Moore
“On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.”
Alan Moore
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“The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.”
Albert CamusPhilosopher
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Albert Camus
“The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.”
Albert Camus
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“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”
Alex HaleyWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Alex Haley
“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”
Alex Haley
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“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
Mark TwainWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Mark Twain
“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
Mark Twain
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