March 2012
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
– Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Disquiet”
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People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may...
– Brian Stableford
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I know why writers write — they write to untangle the knots in their...
– Virginia Frances Schwartz, “4 Kids 5-E and 1 Crazy Year”
February 2012
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Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And...
– Haruki Murakami
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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels...
– Louise Erdrich
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I don’t have any sense other than writing is extremely difficult for me. People...
– Junot Dìaz
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Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside...
– Julio Cortázar, “Around the Day in Eighty Worlds”
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It does help, to be a writer, to have the sort of crazed ego that doesn’t allow...
– Neil Gaiman
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I probably never mentioned it before, but writing is really, REALLY difficult....
– Steven Moffat
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Trying to set up a comic book meeting… and somehow the chosen venue is now looking to be a strip club.
I don’t know if this is awesome…. or awkward.
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From what I’ve heard, everyone, including me, is having a shitty Monday. Here’s to all of you that might be in the same boat as the rest of us. We’ll get through it. One headache at a time. (I need to tell myself this or I will rip a phone book in half)
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It’s true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be...
– Anne Tyler
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It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so...
– Alice Munro
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People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness...
– Karen Blixen, “Out of Africa”
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I certainly don’t enjoy writing. I get a fine warm feeling when I’m doing well,...
– William Styron
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sassiarty asked: 13 and 18?
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fictionalized asked: 6 and 19.
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It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not...
– Catherynne M. Valente
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But our wounds are part of who we are
And there is nothing left to chance
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– Michael Card
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