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

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“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
― John Cheever

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“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

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“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
― Michael Cunningham

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“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

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“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

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“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

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“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell

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“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

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“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
― Julia Quinn

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“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”
― Lady Gaga

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“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens

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“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
― Cornelia Funke

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“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

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“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

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“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa