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quotes[0]='Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage. - Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum'\par
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quotes[1]='Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett'\par
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quotes[2]='Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly'\par
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quotes[3]='Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. - David Sedaris'\par
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quotes[4]='Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. -Edward Bulwer-Lytton'\par
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quotes[5]='Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. - Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey'\par
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quotes[6]='Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing. - Heather Armstrong'\par
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quotes[7]='I am a galley slave to pen and ink. - Honore de Balzac'\par
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quotes[8]='The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block. - Inigo DeLeon'\par
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quotes[9]='It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. - Isabel Colegate'\par
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quotes[10]='Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. - Jesse Stuart'\par
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quotes[11]='Write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. - Joan Didion'\par
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quotes[12]='Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard'\par
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quotes[13]='The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. - Leo Rosten'\par
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quotes[14]='Learn as much by writing as by reading. - Lord Acton'\par
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quotes[15]='I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. - Lord Brabazon'\par
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quotes[16]='First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity. - Martin Myers'\par
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quotes[17]='There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively. - Min Kim'\par
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quotes[18]='I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. - Oscar Wilde'\par
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quotes[19]='Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you. - Real Live Preacher'\par
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quotes[20]='This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you\rquote re doing, or it comes out flat. You can\rquote t fake your way through this. - Real Live Preacher'\par
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quotes[21]='Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It\rquote s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors. - Rhys Alexander'\par
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quotes[22]='I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved. - Stephanie Barron'\par
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quotes[23]='If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. - Stephen King'\par
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quotes[24]='You must not come lightly to the blank page. - Stephen King'\par
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quotes[25]='It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words. - Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata'\par
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quotes[26]='A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann'\par
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quotes[27]='A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. - Tom Bissell'\par
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quotes[28]='An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do. - W. Somerset Maugham'\par
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quotes[29]='There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W. Somerset Maugham'\par
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quotes[30]='We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. - W. Somerset Maugham'\par
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quotes[31]='Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. - Arnold Lobel'\par
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quotes[32]='Wear the old coat and buy the new book. - Austin Phelps'\par
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quotes[33]='Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. - Bell Hooks'\par
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quotes[34]='I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. - Charles De Secondat'\par
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quotes[35]='Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot'\par
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quotes[36]='There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. - Christopher Morley'\par
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quotes[37]='A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Cicero'\par
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quotes[38]='Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. - Dorothy L. Sayers'\par
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quotes[39]='The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow'\par
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quotes[40]='Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher'\par
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quotes[41]='Never judge a book by its movie. - J. W. Eagan'\par
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quotes[42]='I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. - Jane Austen'\par
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quotes[43]='Oh for a book and a shady nook... - John Wilson'\par
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quotes[44]='Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. - Kathleen Norris'\par
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quotes[45]='Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal. - Lenore Hershey'\par
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quotes[46]='When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. - Michel de Montaigne'\par
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quotes[47]='Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. - P. J. O'Rourke'\par
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quotes[48]='Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. - William Shakespeare'\par
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quotes[49]='The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. - Jane Austen'\par
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quotes[50]='But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. - Jane Austen'\par
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quotes[51]='The writer provides one half and the reader the other. \endash Paul Valery'\par
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quotes[52]='Writers are a scourge to those they cohabit with. They are present and at the same time they are absent. They are present by the fact of their continuing curiosity, their observing, their cataloguing minds, their longing to see into another person. But the longing is discharged into the work. \endash Edna O\rquote Brien'\par
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quotes[53]='A writer\rquote s obituary should read: He wrote books then he died. \endash William Faulkner'\par
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quotes[54]='A true writer doesn\rquote t write about the experience he\rquote s had but about the experience he\rquote s going to have. \endash T. S. Eliot'\par
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quotes[55]='A writer knows more than he knows. He has a subconscious ability to read signs. \endash Nadine Gordimer'\par
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quotes[56]='Like all obsessive people novelists don\rquote t really ask themselves why they do it \endash so when people ask them they\rquote ve got to make up reasons. \endash Thomas Keneally'\par
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quotes[57]='Contrary to popular impression, writers, unlike pole vaulters, do not know when they have done their best\'85 \endash John Updike'\par
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quotes[58]='The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector. This is the writer\rquote s radar and all great writers have had it. \endash Ernest Hemingway'\par
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quotes[59]='George Bernard Shaw insisted that he would start at the top of the page without the slightest inkling of what was going to happen by the bottom of it. \endash David Campton'\par
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quotes[60]='I think I am a bit of a schizoid: there is a person that is me and the person who writes. \endash William Trevor'\par
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quotes[61]='Sometimes when I am empty, when words won\rquote t come, when I find I haven\rquote t written a single sentence after scribbling whole pages, I collapse on my couch and lie there dazed, bogged in a swamp of despair, hating myself and blaming myself\'85 A quarter of an hour later, everything has changed; my heart is pounding with joy. \endash Gustave Flaubert'\par
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quotes[62]='Last week I spent five days writing one page\'85 \endash Gustave Flaubert'\par
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quotes[63]='Every true novelist listens for that suprapersonal wisdom, which explains why great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. \endash Milan Kundera'\par
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quotes[64]='Writers need solitude as others need sleep. \endash Source Unknown'\par
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quotes[65]='I don\rquote t invent it \endash really do not \endash but see it and write it down. \endash Charles Dickens'\par
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quotes[66]='You once said you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all\'85once can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one is writing, why even night is not night enough. \endash Franz Kafka'\par
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quotes[67]='Many people believe they have a novel in them; few get to write one, fewer still to see it published. \endash Source Unknown'\par
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quotes[68]='My stories come to me and ask to be written. They come without asking at all sorts of strange times. But if I don\rquote t write them down they go away. \endash Allison Uttley'\par
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quotes[69]='The mark of a good writer is one who can hold two opposing opinions in his head at the same time. \endash Source Unknown'\par
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quotes[70]='Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic and fear which is in inherent in the human situation. \endash Ghram Greene'\par
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quotes[71]='Everything comes out of silence. If you\rquote re silent for a long enough time people just appear in your mind. \endash Gloria Steinem'\par
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quotes[72]='To write about love and exclude sex was a useless labour. \endash Isaac Bashevis Singer'\par
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quotes[73]='By words the mind is winged. - Aristophanes'\par
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quotes[74]='Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. - Ivana Trump'\par
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quotes[75]='Sometimes you have to go on when you don\rquote t feel like it, and sometimes you\rquote re doing good work when it feels like all you\rquote re managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position. - Stephen King'\par
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quotes[76]='The only thing worth writing about is the conflict in the human heart. \endash William Faulkner'\par
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quotes[77]='Novels are made out of people. \endash Anthony Burgess'\par
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quotes[78]='You\rquote d be amazed how much you find you know when you start writing. \endash Source Unknown'\par
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