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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#j-k-rowling #voldemort #inspirational

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#classics #inspiration #writing #inspirational

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#writing #inspirational

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-poet #hope-and-despair #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #intellectualism

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#on-writing #storytelling #inspirational

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't. ↗

— Jeffrey McDaniel

#life #love #poetry #women #writing

In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#star #world #inspirational

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#inspirational #intolerance #tolerance #inspirational

How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#drama #inspirational #life #self-empowerment #victim-mentality

At the last moment, Antoinette came out of her faint and shouted one word to her child. That word, reader, was adieu... Adieu is the French word for farewell. “Farewell” is not the word you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by two oversize mice in black hoods... “Farewell” is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#inspirational #writing-from-the-heart #inspirational