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

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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom" —

Robert Frost

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"I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books." —

Abraham Lincoln

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“When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus

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“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” — Philip Pullman

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"Writing is thinking on paper. " — William Zinsser

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“If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don’t be shown up by a baboon”

― James Scott Bell

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“I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.”

― Shandy L. Kurth

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“Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.”

― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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“Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.”

― Aryn Kyle

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“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ”

― Dan Kennedy

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“It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engine without fuel -- can't get anywhere without it. Or like a lighthouse without a light on top -- doesn't guide anyone in to home or safe harbor.”

― Robert Fanney

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“Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.”

― Chinua Achebe.

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“You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”

― Ernest Hemingway

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“Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.”

― Meagan Spooner

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“...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.”

― Angelica Banks

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A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.
– Sidney Sheldon

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Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
– Ray Bradbury

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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Saul Bellow

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Some books you read.
Some books you enjoy.

But some will swallow you up, heart and soul.

- Joanne Harris -

maplesue

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

– Garrison Keillor