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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
– Emilie Buchwald |
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“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel |
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“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock |
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“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton |
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“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
― George Gissing |
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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
– Mark Twain |
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
– Somerset Maugham |
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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”
— Joyce Carol Oates |
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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
— Ernest Hemingway |
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“I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.” — L.M. Montgomery
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“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”
― Joseph Hunt |
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“I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.”
― Pat Pattison |
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“You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and during this one life, you should put your words down, and make your voice heard, and then let others hear your voice. And the only way any of that’s going to happen is if you actually do it. People can’t read the thoughts in your head. They can only read the thoughts you put down, carefully and with great love, on the page. So you have to do it, goddamnit.”
― Dave Eggers |
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“Ending a series is a difficult one .......where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that.”
― Shandy L. Kurth |
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“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”
― Dejan Stojanovic |
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“I don't write stories, I write characters.”
― Bhavya Kaushik |
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“Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out”
― Charles Bukowski |
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“I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.”
― Marvin Harris |
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“When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.”
― Roberto Bolaño |
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Post time 27-1-2018 12:28 AM
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