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I’m a geek. I’m a writer. I spent all of my time in my childhood obsessing about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who. I was alone, I was an outsider — what do you expect? I was that bullied kid at the back of the class weeping for loneliness. I don’t think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I’ll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.
- Steven Moffat
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
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everything changed in a day
and I know another one is on the way
- Third Eye Blind
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Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it.
- Anne Lamott
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The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
- Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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I can be very pessimistic on a broad scale. On a smaller scale, I love people and I’m interested in them. There are certain human truths, like death, that nobody gets to escape, and pain, which everybody not only feels but needs. You have to go through it. So for everybody, at some point—very often for teenagers—the world is a terrible place. The world is a giant, awful black hole of evil conspiracy. Sometimes that’s because you have perspective on what the world’s really like, and sometimes it’s because you’ve completely lost perspective and you’re having a terrible day. But no matter what, everybody shares that feeling, and life is kind of about your ways around that, your ways around certain truths. Some people combat it with faith, some people combat it with work. For me, if I’m not writing or creating something, I get very antsy. That’s my little defense against darkness. Also, my kids.
- Joss Whedon
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (via lolaroid600)
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Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
- The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
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1. Learn to live frugally and don’t get into debt.
2. Write what you want, not what you think “the market” wants.
3. Turn off the television.
4. Don’t major in Creative Writing in college. Chances are it will drain the life out of your creativity.
5. Never, ever criticize yourself during a first draft.
6. Have the courage to revise your work.
7. Read every night before you go to sleep.
8. Do not pressure yourself by saying “I have to get this published by the time I am 20 (or 30, or 40, or 80, etc.)
9. Write the story in your heart.
10. Pay attention to William Faulkner’s wise words. He said “Don’t be ‘a writer.’ Be writing.
- Advice for Aspiring Authors, Laurie Halse Anderson
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Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
- T.E. Lawrence
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It is the little things which have always held chaos at bay.
- Madeleine L’Engle
