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

HoneyManjer

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. -Oscar Wilde

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Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

–Vera Nazarian

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Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

–Mason Cooley

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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

–Harold Kushner

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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

–John Green

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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

–Oscar Wilde

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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

–Dr. Seuss

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

–Abraham Lincoln

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You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

–Paul Sweeney

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Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

–J.K. Rowling

WhiskeyScotch

“I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.”

― Carl Sandburg

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“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”

― Tiffany Madison

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“As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.”

― David Morrell

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“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves, something that withstands the test of time and is passed down for generations.”

― C.K. Webb

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“It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.”

― Ray Bradbury

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“For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.”

― Joyce Carol Oates

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“One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into
a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.
Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,
physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.”

― Niyi Osundare

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“My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.”

― Walter Kirn

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“Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.”

― Marty Rubin

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“Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff, and with books it's ideas and words. The end result is the same though, you want people to eat them up.”

― Emma Shortt