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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
― Gustave Flaubert |
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“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche |
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“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
― Molière |
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“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”
― P.G. Wodehouse |
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“An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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"I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!”
― Lewis Carroll |
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“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
― Truman Capote |
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“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
― Mark Twain |
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“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”
― Harper Lee |
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“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
― André Gide |
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“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris |
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“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini |
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" If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.”
― Isaac Asimov |
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“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
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“This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.”
― Anaïs Nin |
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“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”
― Stephen King |
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“We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”
― Franz Kafka |
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“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
― Oscar Wilde |
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" A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
― Robert Frost |
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Post time 11-5-2018 05:43 PM
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Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
Markus Herz |
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Category: Belia & Informasi
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Post time 10-5-2018 07:17 PM
