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

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“I almost always urge people to write in the first person. … Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.”
—William Zinsser

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“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.”
—Ernest Hemingway

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“Write while the heat is in you. … The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.”
—Henry David Thoreau

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It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?
The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

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                "In the evening he went to the cinema to see ‘The Lord of the Rings’, which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures."               
                 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

                 

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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.”
- Joseph Addison

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“The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.”

- J.A. Langford

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“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will last you until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.”

- Anthony Trollope

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”―J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye


                    

  

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“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”―Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
                    

  

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"What is this heaven? What is it we desire from the hours, weeks, lifetimes we devote to books? What would you sacrifice to sit in that comfy chair with perfect light for an afternoon in eternity, reading the perfect book, forever?”―Audrey Niffenegger, The Night Bookmobile

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“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”―Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

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Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Then when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team.
—Karen Witemeyer

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“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
—A.C. Grayling