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I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives. — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
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Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“To these things do writers sink; and then the critics tell them that they “talk for effect”; and then the writers answer:… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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