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

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“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.” - Richard Bach

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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway

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Your first draft doesn’t matter. Nobody’s ever going to see your first draft. Nobody care about your first draft ... Honestly, whatever you’re doing can be fixed. It can be fixed tomorrow. You can fix it next week. For now, just get the words out. Get the story down however you can get it down—and then fix it.

–Neil Gaiman

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“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.” ― P. G. Wodehouse

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"Good writing is in the edits." - Anon

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Less an observation than an overriding rule: "Write the truest sentence that you know." - Hemingway

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"Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground as much as your head in the clouds. The cute dragon that sits on your shoulder also craps all down your back, but this makes it more interesting because it gives it an added dimension." -Sir Terry Pratchett.

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Don’t think, just write.

Ray Bradbury

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