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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8927)

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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
Oscar Wilde
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Oscar Wilde
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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
T. S. Eliot
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Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May.
Martin Amis
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I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
Bret Easton Ellis
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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
Oscar Wilde
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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
Alice Munro
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Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever time it takes or pain it may cause. It can pay to the future what you owe to the past.
Margaret Culkin Banning
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The Uruguayans have a sort of purity. I don't know where they got it, and I doubt even if they know from where they got it. Perhaps they didn't kill off their major population.
Martin Amis
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Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.
George Saunders
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We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.
Adam Haslett
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My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.
Adam Haslett
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It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
Adam Haslett
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How can I dispose of myself with it?
Jane Austen
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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
Jane Austen
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... justice is mercy's highest self.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
Robert Louis Stevenson
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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')
Anne Tyler
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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
Oscar Wilde
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I trust that absolutes have gradations.
Jane Austen
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