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

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

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“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

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“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

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“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

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“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

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“Tears are words that need to be written.”
― Paulo Coelho

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“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

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“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
― Anaïs Nin

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“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

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“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James A. Michener