Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I always think about the books I'm doing in pretty much the same way. I'm simply trying to write that particular novel as well as that particular novel can be written. I want to listen to what it is telling me, trying to figure out what it wants to do as much as what I want to do with it. There's a negotiation that's constant and ongoing between me and the material I'm working with, because I'm trying to listen to it.

Peter Straub's Popular Quotes

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

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To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting…

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Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

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I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back i…

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Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

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The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

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What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thin…

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Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

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Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinemen…

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