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

LelaRentaka7

Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.”
― George Orwell

LelaRentaka7

“Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.”
― Till Lindemann

LelaRentaka7

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

saizeriya

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
- Boris Pasternak

saizeriya

Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life. - Philip Roth

saizeriya

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. - Samuel Butler

seribulan

I read like the flame reads the wood.
Alfred Döblin

LelaRentaka7

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
― Alan Dean Foster

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“I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.”
― Octavia E. Butler

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“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”
― Isadora Duncan

LelaRentaka7

“A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.”
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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“You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.”
― Will Rogers

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“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”
― Pearl S. Buck

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“And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
― Dorothy Parker

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“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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“All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

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“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.”
― Henry Miller

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"I wasn't born to stand on the sidewalk, I was born to fly around crazy in the sky!”
― C. JoyBell C.