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

bianglala

"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."

-  Abraham Lincoln

zueazza

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zueazza

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

bianglala

"You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two."

- Michael Chabon

bianglala

"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."

- Enrique Jardiel Poncela

bianglala

"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."

- Isaac Asimov

bianglala

"If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read."

- Giacomo Casanova

bianglala

"A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?"

- Andrei Tarkovsky

bianglala

"Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living."

- Warren Ellis

seribulan

      “My whole being is a dark chant
that will carry you perpetuating you
to the dawn of eternal growths and blossomings
in this chant I sighed you, oh
in this chant,
I grafted you to the tree, to the water, to the fire.”  
  ―    فروغ فرخزاد

seribulan

      “Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.”  
  ―    Kellie Elmore

seribulan

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
― Leo Tolstoy

KyraKnightley

"We read to know we're not alone.
-William Nicholson, Shadowlands

KyraKnightley

"′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.
-Mark Twain

KyraKnightley

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.

–Josh Jameson

KyraKnightley

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

–Gilbert K. Chesterton

KyraKnightley

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

–Salman Rushdie

zueazza

"Your overnight success story is always a result of everything you have done in your life until that moment"

- Bel Pesce

seribulan

      “I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”  
  ―    Wallace Stevens

seribulan

      “Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.”  
  ―    Samuel Taylor Coleridge