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"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."

Flannery O'Connor

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"My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people."

Laurell K. Hamilton

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"A book is a gift you can open again and again."

Garrison Keillor

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"I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book."

Stephen Fry, musicOMH Interview

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"Every man's memory is his private literature."

Aldous Huxley

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"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."

Stephen King

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"The world is a great book, he who never stirs from home, reads only a page."

St. Augustine

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"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul."

Franz Kafka

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"An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"My efforts to cut out 50,000 words may sometimes result in my adding 75,000. "

Thomas Wolfe

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"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him."

Mel Brooks

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"Remember that each character must sound different from the others. And they should not all sound like you."

Anne Lamott

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"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

Sir Winston Churchill

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"I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less."
 
Alex Haley

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"So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, Is making a chore for the reader who reads. "

From Seuss-isms by Dr Seuss (Theodor Geisel)

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"At my first literary luncheon, a woman asked me with absolute sincerity, 'How does it feel to have written your best book first?"

Amy Tan

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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Ben Franklin

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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

Sylvia Plath

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"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."

Jerry Seinfeld

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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

Maya Angelou

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"I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway."
 
Toni Morrison

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"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk."

Stephen King

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"Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering."

Margaret Atwood

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"I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!"

Meg Cabot

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"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."

Agatha Christie

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"Outside a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

Groucho Marx

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"My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places."

Spoken by Winnie the Pooh in Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne

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"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it - three minutes; to collect the data in it - all my life."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands."

O. Henry  (William Sydney Porter)