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

saizeriya

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
P.G. Wodehouse

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“People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”
― Ernest Hemingway

saizeriya

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
Fernando Pessoa, in The Book of Disquiet

LelaRentaka7

“If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed.”
― Patrick H.T. Doyle

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"Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

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“. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.”
― Kim Addonizio

saizeriya

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

LelaRentaka7

“I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.”
― Beth Revis

LelaRentaka7

“you must not come lightly to the blank page.”
― Stephen King

saizeriya

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
Maya Angelou

LelaRentaka7

“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”
― Gustave Flaubert

saizeriya

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson

LelaRentaka7

“I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care".
--Phillip Roth

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“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...”
― Walter Mosley

saizeriya

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
Simone de Beauvoir, in The Woman Destroyed

LelaRentaka7

“What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.”
― Maya Angelou

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“In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).”
― John Scalzi

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“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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“When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.”
― Anne Lamott