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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.”
― J.M. Porup |
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“You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.”
― Gore Vidal |
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“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”
― Gertrude Stein |
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“I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.”
― Raymond E. Feist |
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“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”
― Jean Little |
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“What is written is merely the dregs of experience.”
― Franz Kafka |
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“In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.”
― Gustave Flaubert |
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“Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.”
― Fran Lebowitz |
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“Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.”
― John Yau |
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“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”
― Mickey Spillane |
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader”
― Ernest Hemingway |
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“My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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“There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.”
― Tobias Wolff |
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“Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich |
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“I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.”
― Ashley Sanders |
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“All a poet can do today is warn.”
― Wilfred Owen |
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“When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.”
― Don DeLillo |
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“Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.”
― Jack M. Bickham |
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“Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.”
― Natalie Goldberg |
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Post time 22-1-2018 12:18 AM
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