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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.”
― Horacio Quiroga |
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“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your arm. Call it the impulse to make something out of nothing, call it an obsessive-compulsive disorder, call it logorrhea. Have you been in a bookstore lately? Have you seen what these authors are doing, the mountainous piles of the flakes of themselves they're leaving behind, like the neatly labeled jars of shit, piss, and toenail clippings one of John Barth's characters bequeathed to his wife, the ultimate expression of his deepest self?”
― T.C. Boyle |
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“Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.
It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:
The history of how you felt.”
― Simon Van Booy |
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“There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart.”
― Alex de Campi |
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“The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.”
― Samuel Johnson |
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“I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.”
― May Sarton |
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“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.”
― Winston S. Churchill |
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“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
― Truman Capote |
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“Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.”
― Ted Chiang |
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“Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.”
― Franz Kafka |
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“All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.”
― Steven Millhauser |
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“Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.”
― Dave Barry |
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“The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.”
― Don Roff |
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“There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.”
― Diane Duane |
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“I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.”
― Italo Calvino |
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“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
― Ernest Hemingway |
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"Real wit is shown in language. We need language.”
― Maya Angelou |
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“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
― Frederik Pohl |
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“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.”
― Alan Moore |
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“In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.”
― Lauren Groff |
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Post time 30-5-2018 05:08 AM
