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

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“I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go. It’s not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.”
― Rick Riordan

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“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.”
― Paula Danziger

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“Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.”
― Doris Lessing

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“I didn't plan on either children or writing.
Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments.
The writing was always marginal in terms of time when the children were small.
But it was major in terms of my head.
I always thought that women could do a lot of things.
All the women I knew did nine or ten things at one time.
I always understood that women worked, they went to church, they managed their houses, they managed somebody else's houses, they raised their children, they raised somebody else's children, they taught.
I wouldn't say it's not hard, but why wouldn't it be? All important things are hard.”
― Toni Morrison

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“You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.”
― Gore Vidal

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“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ”
― Mark Twain

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“Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.”
― Erica Jong

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“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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“In a weak moment, I have written a book.”
― Margaret Mitchell

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“We are all pencils in the hand of God.”
― Mother Teresa

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“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.”
― Will Self

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“But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.”
― Stephen King

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“She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

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“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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“Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.”
― Stephen King

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“Being a writer is a good, good thing.”
― Shannon Hale

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All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want.
― Tennessee Williams

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“All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.”
― Denis Diderot

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If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people
-David Foster Wallace