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![Susan Sontag](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615556608i/7907._UX200_CR0,17,200,200_.jpg)
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]”
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[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]”
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![Douglas Adams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1616277702i/4._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantle piece, in order to prove it could be done.
This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
However, this is not relevant to what is currently on my mind because it concerns sloths, whereas the Branwell Brontë piece of information concerns writers and feeling like death and doing things to prove they can be done, all of which are pertinent to my current situation to a degree that is, frankly, spooky.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
However, this is not relevant to what is currently on my mind because it concerns sloths, whereas the Branwell Brontë piece of information concerns writers and feeling like death and doing things to prove they can be done, all of which are pertinent to my current situation to a degree that is, frankly, spooky.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
![Junot Díaz](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1487667538i/55215._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
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![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to light the way through the darkness for others.
I write to be seen and heard.
I write to be near those I love.
I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper.
I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.
I write past the embarrassment of exposure.
I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal.
I write myself out of nightmares.
I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.
I write to remember.
I write knowing conversations don’t always take place.
I write because speaking can’t be reread.
I write to sooth a mind that races.
I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.
I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.
I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long.
I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.
I write to provide a legacy.
I write to make sense out of senselessness.
I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding.
I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers.
I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time.
I write because God loves stories.
I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.”
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I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to light the way through the darkness for others.
I write to be seen and heard.
I write to be near those I love.
I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper.
I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.
I write past the embarrassment of exposure.
I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal.
I write myself out of nightmares.
I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.
I write to remember.
I write knowing conversations don’t always take place.
I write because speaking can’t be reread.
I write to sooth a mind that races.
I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.
I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.
I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long.
I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.
I write to provide a legacy.
I write to make sense out of senselessness.
I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding.
I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers.
I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time.
I write because God loves stories.
I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.”
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![Richard Brautigan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1536456518i/7970._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her next lover to be a broom.”
― Sombrero Fallout
― Sombrero Fallout
![Junot Díaz](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1487667538i/55215._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."
[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
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[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
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![Red Haircrow](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1597701769i/4026156._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.”
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![Lloyd Alexander](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1353430382i/8924._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”
― Time Cat
― Time Cat
![Jacob Nordby](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1455007558i/5751935._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”
― Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to live your best life now
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”
― Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to live your best life now
![Walter Benjamin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651512562i/1860._UX200_CR0,46,200,200_.jpg)
“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are.”
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![Helene Hanff](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1263552274i/58918._CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
― 84, Charing Cross Road
![Sylvia Plath](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613135175i/4379._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.”
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![Frank Lloyd Wright](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1449732743i/69188._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”
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“Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well.”
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![Lily King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1404743838i/117786._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“I don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
![Karl Popper](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1538933057i/349707._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it”
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![Helen Bevington](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1411191740i/1088328._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.”
― When Found, Make a Verse of
― When Found, Make a Verse of
![Aberjhani](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1185564248i/237360._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
![Marcel Proust](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1649882562i/233619._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
― Time Regained
― Time Regained
“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
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