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She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#anonymity #inspirational #isolation #imagination

No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#imaginary-things #immigrants #immigration #imagination

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#writing #writing-craft #writing-philosophy #writing-process #imagination

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet. ↗

— Stephen King

#inspirational

- ¿Recuerdas lo que significa este punto del centro? (...) Soy yo: tu eje, tu principio y tu fin, tu amor, tu vida (...). Y lo seré siempre. Está escrito aquí, y en los posos de café, y seguramente está escrito en todos los sitios imaginables. Eres mía y nadie nos separará jamás. ↗

— Ángeles Ibirika

#declaración-de-amor #declarations-of-love #español #love #spanish

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#inspirational

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#inspiration #writer #imagination

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#writing #imagination

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#imagination #murder #serial-killer #writing #imagination

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#inspiration #inspirational