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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.”
― Russell Baker |
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“The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.”
― Anne Lamott |
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“There are very few innocent sentences in writing.”
― David Foster Wallace |
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“You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.”
― Sandra Brown |
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“Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in 99% of cases, exactly as I imagined it -- if not better. I've been doing this a long time now, and I'm going to do it until I die. Which probably won't be long, given the constant insane deadline pressure.”
― Warren Ellis |
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“Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.”
― Alan C. Martin |
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“I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.”
― Terry Pratchett |
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“You wanna be the next Tolkien? Don't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. TOLKIEN didn't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. He read books on finnish philology."
--Neil Gaiman |
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" You go and read outside your comfort zone, go and learn stuff. And then the most important thing, once you get any level of quality--get to the point where you wanna write, and you can write--is tell YOUR story."
-Neil Gaiman |
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" Don't tell a story anyone else can tell. Because you always start out with other people's voices... There will always be people who are better or smarter than you. There are people who are better writers than me, who plot better than I do, but there is no one who can tell a Neil Gaiman story like I can.”
― Neil Gaiman |
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“I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.”
― Barack Obama |
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“Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.”
― Neil Gaiman |
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“The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.”
― David Foster Wallace |
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“Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.”
― Brendan Francis Brown |
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“I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. "
-Neil Gaiman |
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"Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it."
-Neil Gaiman |
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“Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.”
― Jacques Barzun |
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“You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.”
― H.L. Mencken |
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“If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.”
― Dashiell Hammett |
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“But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it."
― Neil Gaiman |
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Post time 1-6-2018 07:59 PM
