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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.”
― Alan C. Martin |
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Post time 6-1-2018 12:29 PM
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“Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk—away from any open flames—to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.”
—George Singleton |
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Post time 6-1-2018 12:30 PM
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“There is only one plot—things are not what they seem.”
—Jim Thompson |
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Post time 6-1-2018 12:31 PM
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“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
—Virginia Woolf |
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“The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”
—Andre Gide |
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“I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”
― E.L. Doctorow |
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“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.”
― Elizabeth Reyes |
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“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”
― Ezra Pound |
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“Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.”
― Cornelia Funke |
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“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”
― Y.S. Lee |
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“You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.”
― H.L. Mencken |
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“Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.”
― Neil Gaiman |
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“I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.”
― Barack Obama |
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“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”
― Baltasar Gracián |
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“I write to understand as much as to be understood.”
― Elie Wiesel |
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“Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it’s that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through—originality.”
—Jack Kerouac, WD |
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hand - Neil Gaiman |
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The world belongs to those who read - Rick Holland |
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I was quiet, but I was not blind. - Jane Austen |
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Post time 5-1-2018 11:45 PM
