Maya Angelou on Untold Stories

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

~ Maya Angelou

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Henry Ward Beecher about Words

“Words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

~ Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. The Human Mind (1887)

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Oscar Wilde on Finding Meanings in Books

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Douglas Adams on the Ineffable

“Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

~ Douglas Adams

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Douglas Adams on the Wonder of Life

“The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it’s just wonderful. And … the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.”

~ Douglas Adams, Response to the question “What is it about science that really gets your blood running?” — as quoted in Richard Dawkins in his eulogy for Adams (17 September 2001)

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Brendan Behan on the Writing Life

“I am a drinker with writing problems.”

~ Brendan Behan

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Ernest Hemingway on Writing

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

~ Ernest Hemingway

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Mark Twain on Unnecessary Words

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

~ Mark Twain

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Stephen King on Short Stories

“A short story is a different thing all together – a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

~ Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

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Benjamin Franklin on Being Remembered

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.”

~ Benjamin Franklin

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