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When my hands can no longer make these hammers and strings play for you, my heart will always sing to you.

Write like no one is reading 2

Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and ever in love with you.

Write like no one is reading 2

The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.

Write like no one is reading 2

True love is wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone you would sometimes also like to strangle.

Write like no one is reading 2

It’s the butterflies in our bellies, and the lightening in our eyes that tells me this all makes so much fucking sense.

Write like no one is reading 2

You said this was only the beginning, I didn't realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story.

Write like no one is reading 2

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

Write like no one is reading 2

I can cross my arms and I can cross my legs, but nothing seems to cross my mind.

Write like no one is reading 2

One day I realized a new found superpower was bestowed upon me. I could walk straight on sidewalks.

Write like no one is reading 2

Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice.

Write like no one is reading 2

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

The writings of John Burroughs

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

When you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

A Wild Sheep Chase

Membacalah empat jam sehari dan menulislah empat jam sehari. Kalau kau tidak bisa meluangkan waktu untuk itu, jangan harap kau bisa menjadi penulis yang baik.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft