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

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"Read a lot, write a lot" is the great commandment."

(

Stephen King

,

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

, 2000)

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Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

(Daniel Pinkwater)

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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

(Richard Steele,

The Tatler

, 1710)

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Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out.

(William Faulkner, interviewed by Lavon Rascoe for

The Western Review

, Summer 1951)

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When you start reading in a certain way, that's already the beginning of your writing. You're learning what you admire and you're learning to love other writers. The love of other writers is an important first step. To be a voracious, loving reader.

(Tess Gallagher, quoted by Nicholas O'Connell in

At the Field's End: Interviews With 22 Pacific Northwest Writers

, rev. ed., 1998)

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"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

- G. K. Chesterton

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"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens." - Mandy Hale

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

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"Her love was entire as a child's, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring."
- By Thomas Hardy

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