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

missselfridge

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"Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre." - Carlos Fuentes

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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." - Ray Bradbury

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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates

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“You should never read just for “enjoyment.” Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick “hard books.” Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god’s sake, don’t let me ever hear you say, “I can’t read fiction. I only have time for the truth.” Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of “literature”? That means fiction, too, stupid.” — John Waters

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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” — Franz Kafka

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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” — Madeleine L’Engle

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“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” — Oscar Wilde

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"In the end, we'll all become stories." - Margaret Atwood

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"She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and LIVE." - Annie Dillard

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“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.”
—Harper Lee

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"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once." - Stephen King

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“Style is to forget all styles.”
—Jules Renard

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"But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself." - C.S. Lewis

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“Style means the right word. The rest matters little.”
—Jules Renard

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"Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry." - Cassandra Clare

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche