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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8925)

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I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.
Joshua Ferris
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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Margaret Deland
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Jeanette Winterson
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Jane Austen
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Kindness can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in as fair a light as possible - many of them hadn't been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on.
George Saunders
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
Virginia Woolf
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
Virginia Woolf
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I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
Virginia Woolf
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When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?
Virginia Woolf
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He was a thorough good sort a bit limited a bit thick in the head yes but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.
Virginia Woolf
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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
Virginia Woolf
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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
Virginia Woolf
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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
Virginia Woolf
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My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.
Virginia Woolf
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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
Virginia Woolf
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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?
Virginia Woolf
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The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.
Virginia Woolf
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Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
Virginia Woolf
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Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.
Virginia Woolf
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia Woolf
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I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf
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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
Virginia Woolf
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