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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”
― William Styron |
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“Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.”
― John Steinbeck |
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“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”
― Kurt Vonnegut |
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“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.”
― Joyce Carol Oates |
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“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”
― Zadie Smith |
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"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ”
― Ray Bradbury |
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“From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out".
― Ray Bradbury
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“How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I can imagine".
--PG Wodehouse |
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“When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.”
― Orson Scott Card |
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“...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.”
― Jennifer Donnelly |
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“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
― Nikki Giovanni |
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“Write to your fear.”
― Dorothy Allison |
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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.”
― Ernest Hemingway |
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“Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.”
― Gabrielle Tozer |
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“Writing is the geometry of the soul. ”
― Plato |
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“If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.”
― R.A. Salvatore |
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“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.”
― Patton Oswalt |
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“I am the perfect version of me.”
― Besa Kosova |
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“I never met a word I didn't love”
― Gail Carson Levine |
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“To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue. ”
― Jennifer Salaiz |
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Post time 31-5-2018 08:47 PM
