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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Thank are dreamt of in your philosophy.”— William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”— William Shakespeare
Source:Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5
“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”— Flannery O'Connor
“The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.”— Isadora Duncan
“Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?”— Joan Didion
“My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.”— Hugh Leonard
“The desire to write grows with writing.”— Desiderius Erasmus
“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”— Anna Quindlen
“If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.”— Joyce Carol Oates
“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.”— Joan Didion