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If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.


Charles Baudelaire


#words #writing #literature

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.


Italo Calvino


#inadequacy-of-words #language #literature #writing #literature

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.


Vladimir Nabokov


#literature

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.


Maya Angelou


#decisions

THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT PITY. THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT REGRET. THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT NUMBER. THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING.


Cassandra Clare


#wall-writing #regret

I am a writer, writer of fictions; I am the heart that you call home.


The Decemberists


#home

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.


Steven Pressfield


#write #writing #writing-life #writing-process #art

...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...


John Geddes


#twitter-quotes #wisdom-quote #writer #writer-s-block #writers-quotes

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.


Jean-Paul Sartre


#journalism #revolution #writing #journalist

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.


J.D. Salinger


#writing #hate






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