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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#illness #shakespeare #writers #intelligence

An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#intelligence

Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored.  Writing is a jealous and needy lover. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#creativity #inopportunity #jealousy #need #richelle

Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#reading #writing #self-worth

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. ↗

— Red Haircrow

#creative-thinking #creative-writing #creativity #individuality #life

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#writing #inspirational

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

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