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

Wakefield

'If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.'
— J.K Rowling
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seribulan

“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.”
—Gore Vidal

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“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
—Samuel Johnson

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“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”
—Elmore Leonard

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“Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.”
—Allegra Goodman

Wakefield

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
–Haruki Murakami

Wakefield

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
–Neil Gaiman

Wakefield

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
–Vera Nazarian

Wakefield

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wakefield

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
–P.J. O’Rourke

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seribulan

“I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.”
—Roald Dahl, WD

Awindlike

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

Awindlike

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

Awindlike

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

Awindlike

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

Awindlike

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

Awindlike

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anaïs Nin