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

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“I write to find out what I'm talking about.”
― Edward Albee

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“Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.”
― Raymond Chandler

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“Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.”
― E.B. White

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“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”
― André Gide

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“I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”
― Julia Quinn

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“You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.”
― Joss Whedon

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“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.”
― Craig Claiborne

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“You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.”
― Warren Ellis

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"Feel through the dark For the scream.”
― Pablo Neruda

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"When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
― Randall Jarrell

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“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
― Iris Murdoch

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“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
― Jacques Derrida

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“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
― Tom Waits

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“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess"
― Nicole Krauss