My Favorite Quotes About Writing

This last weekend was truly terrible. A lot of bad stuff happened, and then I got sick, and it became a nightmare. I would say it's the worst weekend I've ever had. although that might be an exaggeration. In any case, I was feeling really down. Then my friends showed up at my door. They had gone to the store and bought me food and...

TUMBA THE HIPPO!

It brightened my day so much, and that is why the world does not stink after all.

Now, I've mentioned before that I have a thing for quotes. So today I'm going to share with you some of my favorite quotes specifically about writing!

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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. -- Albert Camus

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -- Jack London 

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. -- Albert Camus

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. -- Ernest
   Hemingway

...May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a
   world. -- Ray Bradbury 

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you. -- from I Know Why
​   the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable
   of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. -- from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by
   J.K. Rowling

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I'll see you later! What are your favorite writing quotes?

(For a list of my favorite quotes in general, click here.)

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