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

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“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

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“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

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“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James

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“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
― George Gissing

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“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens

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“Without literature, life is hell.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“Tears are words that need to be written.”
― Paulo Coelho

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“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

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“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

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“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

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“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

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“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anaïs Nin

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“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

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“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

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“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

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“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

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“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor