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

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“You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you. Because art makes the world, because it matters, because it makes us. Or breaks us.”

― Rebecca Solnit

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“A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes.”

― Semezdin Mehmedinović

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“Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!”

― Mehmet Murat ildan

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“A good novel is an indivisible sum: every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.”

― Ayn Rand

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“It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.”

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“You want to go to a place where you never lose anything and you keep gaining many things? Go to the Land Of Literature where you gain new paths, new ideas, new lives, new goals, and new souls!”

― Mehmet Murat ildan

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“Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.”

― Oscar Wilde

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A good book is not the same as a successful one.”

― Johnny Rich

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“A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.”

― Johnny Rich

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“Literature is a vast ocean, in which one has to drown themselves to be able to conquer it. Those on shore can see a side of it or have tasted a part of it. And I choose to drown myself in it than just to see it.”

― Nikita Dudani

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“I believe one of the important differences between creating literature and just telling a story around the campfire is that in literature you’re recreating the experience of life, not just relaying a ‘this happened, then that happened’ kind of narrative. The specific details and layers of depth that make the world of the story — and what the character is experiencing in that world — as real as possible are elements I love as a reader and, consequently, elements I strive to use effectively as a writer.”

― Lara Campbell McGehee

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“To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.”

― X. J. Kennedy

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“If we didn't read people who were bastards, we'd never read anything. Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.”

― Mary Karr

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“In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature.”

― Abdourahman A. Waberi

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“If literature matters today, it is chiefly because it seems to many conventional critics one of the few remaining places where, in a divided, fragmented world, a sense of universal value may still be incarnate; and where, in a sordidly material world, a rare glimpse of transcendence can still be attained.”

― Terry Eagleton

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“Give at least fifteen minutes everyday to reading. Sometimes, we spend a lot of time watching television - surfing through channels; not really watching anything in particular. Fifteen minutes out of that time is not a big deal. Soon you will find yourself reading for more than fifteen minutes. Soon you will find yourself turning to a book when you need to relax. Soon you will realize that reading a book heals you in a way you never imagined possible.”

― Arti Honrao

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“An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.”

― Victoria Clayton

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“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. It does much more than that, it tells us the truth about its readers; and, oddly enough, it tells us this all the more the more cynical and immoral be the motive of its manufacture.”

― G.K. Chesterton

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“This is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

― F.Scott Fitzgerlad

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“Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.”

― Brandi L. Bates