black and white photo headshot of Canadian writer Stephen Leacock wearing a suit and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself -- it is the occurring which is difficult."
-- Stephen Leacock
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black and white photo of journalist, editor, and literary critic wearing a bow tie, smoking a cigarette, and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out a window."
- Burton Rascoe
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Headshot color photo of author Ted Nicholas standing outside and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"The writing of a best-seller represents only fraction of the total effort required to create one."
- Ted Nicholas
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“Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales… I did put in Einstein’s famous equation E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half my potential readers.”
Stephen Hawking
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#Reading
black and white photo of writer P.G. Wodehouse lounging in a chair and smoking a pipe, while wearing a checkered sport coat and tie, and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed."
- P.G. Wodehouse
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“I know there are children in your community with their own dreams…. The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.”
Dolly Parton
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Color image with dramatic lighting of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami leaning toward the camera with his hands partially folded in front of him and looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, crating a complete landscape that I treasure."
- Haruki Murakami
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Color photo of American author and journalist Aaron Latham in a suit and tie, at a gala, and smiling off camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Some things can only be said in fiction, but that doesn't mean they aren't true."
- Aaron Latham
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black and white photo of American writer E.B. White working at a typewriter.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Be obscure clearly."
- E.B. White (on his advise to young writers)
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black and white photo of novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler wearing a suit, sitting, and opening an envelope.
Daily Writing Quote:
"The faster I write, the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them."
- Raymond Chandler
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black and white photo of poet Anne Sexton sitting outside on a lounge chair in the shade in a lawn, in a fashionable shoulderless dress, smoking a cigarette, and looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I will fool around on the typewriter. It might take me ten pages of nothing, of terrible writing, and then I'll think, 'That's what I mean!'"
- Anne Sexton
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“Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.”
Alice Walker
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Color photo of American author Dan Poynter wearing a dark suit, seated, holding a stack of books, and smiling broadly at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I hope you get as much pleasure reading my book as I got spending the money you paid for it."
- Dan Poynter
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“You only live twice: Once when you are born / And once when you look death in the face.”
You Only Live Twice
by Ian Fleming
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color headshot photo of American journalist and activist Gloria Steinem smiling at the camera and standing in front of a tree.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Writing... keeps me from believing everything I read."
- Gloria Steinem
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black and white photo of American writer Willa Cather writing with pen and paper at a table and looking toward the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
- Willa Cather
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black and white headshot photo of French essayist and philosopher Roland Barthes looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language."
- Roland Barthes
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“I needed books, and stories, and words. Like writers of all ages, I didn’t feel like I fit in. I sometimes felt like an outsider, and books gave me a place to hide and a place to rest, and a place to be understood.”
Deb Caletti
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color photo headshot of poet T.S. Eliot sitting in a suit and looking off-camera
Daily Writing Quote:
"The only critics worth reading are the critics who practice, and practice well, the art of which they write."
- T.S. Eliot
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Black and white photo headshot of author Angus Wilson smiling at the camera and wearing a suit and tie.
Daily Writing Quote:
"All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery--a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't."
- Angus Wilson
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“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life”
Christopher Paolini
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black and white headshot photo of author Sherwood Anderson wearing a suit and looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others."
- Sherwood Anderson
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black and white photo of author Isaac Asimov in a suit and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it."
- Isaac Asimov, on writer's block
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black and white photo of author Kurt Vonnegut smoking outdoors and smiling
Daily Writing Quote:
"Every successful creative person creates with an audience of one in mind."
- Kurt Vonnegut
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black and white headshot photo of author Oscar Wilde wearing a fur coat, while sitting turned to the side and looking over at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose."
- Oscar Wilde
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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all”
Henry David Thoreau
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black and white photo of author Franz Kafka in a suit, standing, and looking just off camera
Daily Writing Quote:
"A book ought to be an icepick to break up the frozen sea within us."
- Franz Kafka
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color headshot photo of poet Robert Frost looking at the camera and wearing a suit and tie.
Daily Writing Quote:
"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."
- Robert Frost
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headshot photo of author Stephen King wearing a leather jacket and knit sweater and smiling at the camera
Daily Writing Quote:
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
- Stephen King
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“If anyone wants to try to enclose in a small space, in a single house or a single room, the history of the human spirit and to make it his own, he can only do this in the form of a collection of books”
My Belief: Essays on Life and Art by Hermann Hesse
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