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

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      “If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.”  
  ―    Morrissey

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      “… and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.”  
  ―    Nâzım Hikmet

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"I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music."

- Hunter S. Thompson

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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"Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story."

- Brian Keene

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"I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist."

- William Trevor

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"What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish."

- Thomas Wolfe

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"I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?"

- John Waters (Role Models) -

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"People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?" [Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]"

- Lemmy Kilmister -

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"I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write."

- Madeleine L'Engle -

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"I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this"

- Nicholas Sparks  -

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"When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside."

- Jennifer Weine -

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“Life's a climb. But the view is great.”

― Miley Cyrus

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      “Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.”  
  ―    Pawan Mishra