Latest posts tagged with #DailyWritingQuote on Bluesky
black and white photo of American writer Willa Cather writing with pen and paper at a table and looking toward the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
- Willa Cather
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black and white headshot photo of French essayist and philosopher Roland Barthes looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language."
- Roland Barthes
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“I needed books, and stories, and words. Like writers of all ages, I didn’t feel like I fit in. I sometimes felt like an outsider, and books gave me a place to hide and a place to rest, and a place to be understood.”
Deb Caletti
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color photo headshot of poet T.S. Eliot sitting in a suit and looking off-camera
Daily Writing Quote:
"The only critics worth reading are the critics who practice, and practice well, the art of which they write."
- T.S. Eliot
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Black and white photo headshot of author Angus Wilson smiling at the camera and wearing a suit and tie.
Daily Writing Quote:
"All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery--a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't."
- Angus Wilson
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“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life”
Christopher Paolini
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black and white headshot photo of author Sherwood Anderson wearing a suit and looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others."
- Sherwood Anderson
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black and white photo of author Isaac Asimov in a suit and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it."
- Isaac Asimov, on writer's block
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black and white photo of author Kurt Vonnegut smoking outdoors and smiling
Daily Writing Quote:
"Every successful creative person creates with an audience of one in mind."
- Kurt Vonnegut
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black and white headshot photo of author Oscar Wilde wearing a fur coat, while sitting turned to the side and looking over at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose."
- Oscar Wilde
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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all”
Henry David Thoreau
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black and white photo of author Franz Kafka in a suit, standing, and looking just off camera
Daily Writing Quote:
"A book ought to be an icepick to break up the frozen sea within us."
- Franz Kafka
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color headshot photo of poet Robert Frost looking at the camera and wearing a suit and tie.
Daily Writing Quote:
"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."
- Robert Frost
#dailywritingquote #poetry #booksky
headshot photo of author Stephen King wearing a leather jacket and knit sweater and smiling at the camera
Daily Writing Quote:
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
- Stephen King
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“If anyone wants to try to enclose in a small space, in a single house or a single room, the history of the human spirit and to make it his own, he can only do this in the form of a collection of books”
My Belief: Essays on Life and Art by Hermann Hesse
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photo of Noel Coward sitting and looking at the camera while smoking, wearing a blue suit with purple tie.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise."
- Noel Coward
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Black and white headshot photo of a young James Merrill, American poet, where his is smiling and looking off-camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Usually I begin a poem with an image or phrase; if you follow trustfully, it's surprising how far an image can lead."
- James Merrill
#dailywritingquote #booksky #poetry
Black and white photo of author D.H. Lawrence, with beard, leaning over an open book and looking toward the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze."
- D.H. Lawrence
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them”
Joseph Brodsky
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early black and white photo headshot of writer Christian Nestell Bovee in a suite and bow tie, with beard, looking sidelong at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one."
- C.N. Bovee
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black and white photo of writer Don Marquis standing in front of a building and wearing a tie and suit, smiling while looking off-camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself."
- Don Marquis
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Painting of 16th century French essayist Michel de Montaigne in formal outfit with neck frills.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Every abridgement of a good book is a stupid abridgement."
- Michel de Montaigne
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black and white photo of American novelist and poet Richard Brautigan with mustache and shoulder length hair and wearing his trademark wide-brimmed hat and a sweater, and looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I always wanted to write a book that ended in the word 'mayonnaise.'"
- Richard Brautigan
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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers”
Charles William Eliot
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black and white photo of poet Robert Frost standing outside on a snowy day with an ax held across his shoulder and looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another."
- Robert Frost
#dailywritingquote #booksky #poetry
Painting of French author Francois-Rene de Chateaubrian outdoors leaning against a wall in warm clothes and one hand tucked into his vest opening.
Daily Writing Quote:
"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."
- François-René de Châteaubriand
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“That’s what books are for… To travel without moving an inch.”
The namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
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color headshot photo of author Anita Brookner resting her chin on her hands and looking at the camera, a bookshelf behind her.
Daily Writing Quote:
"My characters exasperate me."
- Anita Brookner
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Painting of French writer and inventor, Blaise Pascal, sitting facing to the side but looking at the viewer.
Daily Writing Quote:
"The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first."
- Blaise Pascal
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color photo headshot of author Stanley Elkin looking at the camera
Daily Writing Quote:
"I find it impossible to write about dumb people."
- Stanley Elkin
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