In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. ― Steven Wright

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Live it up so you can write it down.

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Step by step and the thing is done. — Charles Atlas

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

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It's a waste of time to think about what I should have done and what I didn't. I really believe in that. That's how I react to the if-onlys of life. To moan and groan about something I shouldn't have done, could have done, might have done...who knows? It is what it is. You got what you got. I live my life one day at a time. — Liza Minnelli

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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

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Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

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