January 2012
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My skin came alive under his fingers, every touch an electric crackle through my...
– Andrea Cremer (Wolfsbane)
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Some days my heart beats so fast
my ribcage sounds like a fucking railroad...
– Andrea Gibson
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It’s easy to take off your clothes and have sex. People do it all the time. But...
– Rob Bell
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428. Don't give up on something you can't go a day...
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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone...
– Joyce Carol Oates
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I need to find my Garmin and get my ass back out...
Maybe signing up for a race will help motivate me…
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Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to...
– Roger Zelazny
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Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both...
– Arthur C. Clarke
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Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and...
– Ashley Smith
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I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a...
– Frank Costello, The Departed
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Make notes - I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular...
– Judith Guest
This is the exact reason I write everything down as soon as it pops into my head. One minute it’s there, the next it’s gone.
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Fuck. This. Shit.
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If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
– Albert Einstein
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21 Reasons Why The English Language Sucks... →
creatingaquietmind:
1. The bandage was wound around the wound. 2. The farm was used to produce produce. 3. The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse. 4. We must polish the Polish furniture. 5. He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 7. Since there was no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present....
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If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake,...
– David Mitchell, “Black Swan Green” (via planb-becomeapirate)
As I get closer to finishing my book, the prospect of people reading it becomes more and more of a possibility and I have to admit, it scares me a little. Or maybe a lot.
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Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...
– David Foster Wallace