...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...

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“When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought to continue with the work; it would be cowardly to retreat. But when writing goes smoothly–why then one certainly should keep on working, since it would be stupid to stop. Consequently one is always writing or should be writing.”

― Joyce Carol Oates

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“The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.”

― Jules Renard

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“Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.”

― Robert M. Drake

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“Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.”

― George Orwell

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“If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.”

― George P. Pelecanos

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“For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.”

― Dan Kennedy

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“Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.”

― Margaret Atwood

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“A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.”

― Henry David Thoreau

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“It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again.”

― Dan Barden

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Be courageous and try to write in a way that scares you a little- Holley Gerth...

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“10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer

Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don’t want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don’t.
Write every day.
Keep writing.”

― Brian Clark

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“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”

― William Faulkner

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“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

― Francis Bacon

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“If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.”

― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.”

― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it”

― Natalie Goldberg

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“Write like it matters, and it will.”

― Libba Bray

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“Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs.”

― Lilith Saintcrow

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“It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.”

― Ariel Gore

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“If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.”

― Russell Banks