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  Writing Quotes - Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted   “The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin   “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays   “Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it wh...

  Writing Quotes - One should use common words to say uncommon things   “Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft   “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."   (Letter 16, 1657)” ― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters   “My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.” ― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim   “In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.” ― Rose Tremain   “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."   [The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]” ― Cyril Connolly   “When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely w...

  Writing Quotes - Writing is a form of therapy   “If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.” ― Patrick Rothfuss   “Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl   “Art never responds to the wish to make ...

  Youth Quotes - Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise   “Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger than you are at this very moment.” ― Chad Sugg   “For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   “So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must not close the door and please don’t hide, because if you ask me about hurt and love I will say love. Love because the hurt will come and go no matter what, but only love makes it worth while. Only love can cure it. Don’t be scared. Go. Love.” ― Charlotte Eriksson   “How to win in life: 1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow 5 don't let people tell you it cant be done 6 make no excuses”...

  Youth Quotes - Youth is an intoxication without wine   “The real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.” ― Nouman Ali Khan   “I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you seek to please others, you will forever be changing because you will never be yourself, only fragments of someone you could be. You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day. That’s the natural order of this world. This is called the practice of detachment.” ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps   “Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.” ― J.B. Priestley   “She had to li...