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

seribulan

“I cannot live without books.” –Thomas Jefferson

Redhead

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. – Mark Twain

Redhead

It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly. – C. J. Cherryh

Redhead

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God. – Sidney Sheldon

Redhead

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him! – Ray Bradbury

Redhead

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. – Douglas Adams

Redhead

Words are a lens to focus one’s mind. – Ayn Rand

Redhead

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
– Joseph Conrad

Redhead

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. – Philip K. Dick

Redhead

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Redhead

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. – E. L. Doctorow

Redhead

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either. – Robert Graves

Redhead

Writing is its own reward. – Henry Miller

Redhead

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex. – Anthony Burgess

Redhead

I can’t write five words but that I change seven. – Dorothy Parker

Redhead

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing. – E. B. White

Redhead

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Redhead

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary—it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. – Somerset Maugham

Redhead

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. – Edgar Rice Burroughs

Redhead

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. – Truman Capote