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What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. - Doris Lessing

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. - Ursula K. Le Guin

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. - Rick Moody

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. - Thor Heyerdahl

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. - Guy de Maupassant

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. - Chuck Palahniuk

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville

“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.” -- Haruki Murakami, "Blind Willow, Sleeping Women"

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. - A.J. Cronin

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. - Wole Soyinka

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

You see things; you say, ' Why? '. But I dream things that never were; and I say ' Why not? ' - George Bernard Shaw

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. - Gilda Radner

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. - Anne Frank

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. - Chuck Klosterman

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job even though only a few hours a day are spent on the actual writing. A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill. - Ernest Hemingway

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. - Niccolò Machiavelli