I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age. John Steinbeck
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?
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Rainer Maria Rilke
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
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Joyce Carol Oates
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Mark Twain
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
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Dorothy Parker
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