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

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“When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.”
― Toni Morrison

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“Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

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“Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.”
― Linda W. Yezak

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"If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there"
— George Harrison

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“It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.”
― Woody Allen

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“A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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“All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.”
― Michael Chabon

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“Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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“When I started writing I was a sick teenaged fuck inside who partly thought I was the new Marquis de Sade, a body doomed to communicate with Satan who was using my sickness as his home away from home, and there’s your proof.”
― Dennis Cooper

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“Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”
― Don Marquis

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"But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.”
― Aaron Sorkin

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“I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.”
― Karen Blixen

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" The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.”
― Don DeLillo

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“Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.”
― Margaret Mahy

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“‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
― Stephen King

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“Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you”
― Ginnetta Correli

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“I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.”
― Jake Black

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“Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.”
― Michael McDowell

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“Writing is a mysterious activity.”
― Susan Sontag