Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature

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It’s true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story’s story – the way a story is received and interpreted and used – the audience plays a part in that too.

HELEN OYEYEMI

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People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know they’re not alone with being confused.

JONATHAN AMES

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A lot of writing is a form of seeing – putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

JONATHAN AMES

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You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money’s in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

LARRY NIVEN

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Well, writers become writers because they love words and language, and attempting a non-native style is all part of the fun.

LEE CHILD

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Read, read, read. You can’t get anywhere unless you are an obsessive, continuous reader of other stuff.

LEE CHILD

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Writing is show business for shy people.

LEE CHILD

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Your literary style reflects your personality.

LOUIS AUCCHINCLOSS

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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

J.G BALLARD

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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
― Hermann Hesse

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There are many quotations that inspire me greatly, but since I love Jane Austen's special work and I even wrote my assignment with https://anyassignment.com/literature/ a few brief kinds of literature. It was supervised by the quote - "A book that is well written always seems to me too short." Every book is a little life that gives lessons.

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“‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” – Mark Twain

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I enjoy writing crime. It’s a puzzle. It’s a craft. Can I keep you turning the pages? I love it when people are midway through a book and I say: ‘Who did it?’ and they always get it wrong.

LYNDA LA PANTE

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A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It’s also an influence in the way you see everything – in the way you feel your life.

THOM GUNN

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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colours of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer’s breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer – perhaps more.

JASPER FFORDE

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"Literature is concerned with the self-conscious exploration of the lives of men, women and children in society. Even when it is comic, it sees life as something worth talking about. This is why airport fiction, or ‘blockbusters’, books which are all plot, can never be considered literature, and why, in the end, they are of little value. It is not only that the language in which they are written lacks bounce and poignancy, but that they don’t return the reader to the multifariousness and complication of existence… In literature personality is all, and the exploration of character – or portraiture, the human subject – is central to it."

HANIF KUREISHI

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Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.

MARY KARR

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But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science. Literature is mankind's organised response to the world around him, or her.

DAVID NICHOLLS

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I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.

JONATHAN HULL

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Who says great literature has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like adulterers being punished and black slaves breaking loose and giant whales eating people? Why can't literature just be stories about women? Refined, respectable women have just as much to say as ignorant black slaves or bloodthirsty Indians or mad white whaling captains. Why do we have to pretend those people's lives matter more than our own?

ANNA QUINDLEN