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

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[size=+1]I learned         that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top,         but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and         quietly putting one bead on after another.
        [size=+1]Brenda         Ueland      

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[size=+1]Writing         is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of         wrestling alligators.
        Olin Miller

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[size=+1]I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
[size=+1] Joan Didion

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Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.
Susan Sontag

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[size=+1]Coleridge         was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom         he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's         name out of a satire then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized         anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you         still want to a writer - and if so, why?
        Bennett Cerf

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[size=+1]To         be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every         day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of         genius to start from the breastbone [size=+1]–[size=+1]         just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw         away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again,         and once more, and over and over....
        John Hersey      

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“Writing is my way of expressing – and thereby eliminating – all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.” – Zadie Smith

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“I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can’t be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.” – Sylvia Plath

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“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”
– George Orwell

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“I don’t know why I started writing. I don’t know why anybody does it. Maybe they’re bored, or failures at something else.” – Cormac McCarthy

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“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it’s something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.”
– Nicole Krauss

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“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” – Flannery O’Connor

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“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”
– Flannery O’Connor