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Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. ↗

— Donald J. Bingle

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My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence. ↗

— Michelle Geaney

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Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary. ↗

— Mary M. Forbes

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Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ↗

— Harold Ross

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"But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults are impardonable, and merit the sharpest arrows of criticism. ↗

— Matthew Lewis

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A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write. ↗

— Dermott Hayes

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No person writes to win awards. ↗

— Mo Yan

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Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told. ↗

— Ana Patrick

#inspirational #writers-on-writing #inspirational

Writing poetry is a state of free float ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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