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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8927)

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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
Oscar Wilde
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Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.
Warren Ellis
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Warren Ellis
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The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.
Warren Ellis
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Magic is the cheat codes for the world.
Warren Ellis
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Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
Warren Ellis
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What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?
Warren Ellis
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I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.
Warren Ellis
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I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.
Warren Ellis
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Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.
Warren Ellis
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Its a strange world. Lets keep it that way.
Warren Ellis
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Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the other's skin as a hat within the year.
Warren Ellis
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Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.
Warren Ellis
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Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!
Warren Ellis
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Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure.
Warren Ellis
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Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.
Warren Ellis
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My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.
Warren Ellis
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
Jeanette Winterson
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My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.
Guy de Maupassant
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And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate they like to have loud chords struck on them.
Elizabeth Bowen
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
Henry James
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