“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”-Louis L’Amour
Louis L’Amour on Flowing Water
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Virginia Woolf on Adventuring
“I will not be “famous,” “great.” I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”–Virginia Woolf
Arthur Miller on the Best Work
“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”–Arthur Miller
Jane Austen Died 200 Years Ago Today
Jane Austen Quote
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Edith Wharton on Dialogue in Fiction
“Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.”–Edith Wharton
Fernando Pessoa on Ignoring Life
Fernando Pessoa quote
Thomas Carlyle on the Magic Preservation of Books
“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”–Thomas Carlyle
Irving Stone on an Artist Without Ideas
“An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”–Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
Henry Miller on Constant Circulation
Henry Miller Quote
Virginia Woolf on the Full Sound
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”–Virginia Woolf
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