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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.”
― Ring Lardner |
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“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mannered, congenial.”
― Natalie Goldberg |
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“I go with the flow but I write against it.”
― Tamara Jasmine Burrell |
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“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”
― William Stafford |
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“I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.”
― Elmore Leonard |
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“A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.”
― M.F.K. Fisher |
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“Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.”
― Cory Doctorow |
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“Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.”
― Toni Cade Bambara |
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“Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.”
― Charles F. Lummis |
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“I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.”
― Ruth Rendell |
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“Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.”
― Kit Reed |
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“Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.”
― Paula Vogel |
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“What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret. ”
― Gail Sher |
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. —Victor Hugo |
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It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations—something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own. —Katherine Patterson |
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There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
J.R.R. Tolkien-The Two Towers |
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
H.Jackson Brown Jr- P.S. I Love You |
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Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich-Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History |
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide-Autumn Leaves |
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Post time 8-2-2018 10:46 PM
