Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature

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The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

JEFFREY DEAVER

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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

JAMAICA KINCAID

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When I’m writing, I think about the garden, and when I’m in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

JAMAICA KINCAID

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One thing I don’t do is read fiction while writing fiction. It interferes with my imagination.

LARRY MCMURTRY

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I believe fiction is a totally legitimate and extremely effective vehicle for serious insight into how society works, or serious speculation, serious analysis. The very best of literature over the centuries has been revealing of human nature, social structures, institutions.

LINDEN MACINTYRE

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People often ask how do you write? I say well you just write by writing. You have something in your mind that you want to say but the actual words are not going to come until you’ve literally sat down and made it possible for the words to come to your mind and be communicated.

LINDEN MACINTYRE

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Writing for me is to a large extent self-entertainment, and the only child is driven to do that.

KINGSLEY AMIS

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Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don’t let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won’t matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

ESTHER FREUD

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Writing was the soul of everything else… Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

PATRICIA HAMPL

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An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.

PATRICIA HAMPL

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True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world.

PATRICIA HAMPL

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Writing is like painting: a highlight here, a touch of colour there, can suggest more than an album of photographs can show.

REGINALD HILL

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Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

KAREN BLIXEN

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Writing is a very lonely occupation.

BERNARD MACLAVERTY

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When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

DAVID MORRELL

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