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

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Nicholson Baker's Popular Quotes

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters cam…

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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

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I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

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Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

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You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

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The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

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Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of thei…

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