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

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"That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard."

- Tarryn Fisher (Mud Vein)

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"What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come."

- Maya Angelou

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"I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head."

- John Updike (Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism) -

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"The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly."

- Julian Barnes (Flaubert's Parrot)  -

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"Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told."

- John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)  -

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"Writing is a delicious agony."

-  Gwendolyn Brooks -

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"You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer."

- Jean M. Auel -

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"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -

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"The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him...A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it."

- Roald Dahl -

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"I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am."

- Jane Austen -

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"Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action. Do it or don't do it.Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got."

- Steven Pressfield (The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles)

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"You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life."

- Joanne Harris (Blackberry Wine) -

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"Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row."

- Ray Bradbury -

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"Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them."

-John Steinbeck -

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"I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night."

- Khaled Hosseini -

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"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book."

- Samuel Johnson (The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2) -

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"Books are the plane
and the train,
and the road,
They are the destination and the journey
They home"

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