Suzy Davies Favourite Quotes Collection

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All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
Neil GaimanWriting life 60
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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events but to make small ones interesting.
Arthur SchopenhauerWriting craft 28
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A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
George OrwellWriting 87
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The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
Martin AmisWriters on writing 47
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Robertson DaviesCats 35
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Creative power is mightier than its possessor.
C.G. JungCreativity 50
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The role of the artist is to ask questions not answer them.
Anton ChekhovArtists 33
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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
Pablo NerudaLove 132
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
OvidLove 181
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLove 211
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If you judge people you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresalove 225
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson WellesLove 389
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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
RumiLove 399
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
Laura Ingalls WilderBook 57
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls WilderLife 39
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
Salman RushdieBooks 82
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Salman RushdieSpeech 120
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
Beatrix PotterPersonality 49
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers to become comfortable with a book not daunted. Books shouldnt be daunting they should be funny exciting and wonderful and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
Roald DahlReading 30
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A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY
Roald DahlParenting 33
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald DahlNew Collection 88
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So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
Roald DahlBooks 108
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all.
Hans Christian AndersenFace 249
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
Virginia WoolfBooks 46
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And the poem I think is only your voice speaking.
Virginia WoolfPoem 41
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Lock up your libraries if you like but there is no gate no lock no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia WoolfWomen 48
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfDream 70
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia WoolfPower 59
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton ChekhovPeace 307
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Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
Vladimir NabokovImagination 168
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