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

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"In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes."

- Mario Vargas Llosa -

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"Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself."

- Rebecca Mead -

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      “Revenge is a dish best served published!”  
  ―    Lisa Kovanda

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      “If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.”  
  ―    Brenda Peterson

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      “I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.”  
  ―    Shandy L. Kurth

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      “Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.”  
  ―    Suze Orman

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"People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused."

- Jonathan Ames -

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"In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality."

- Simone de Beauvoir -

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"I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism."

- Abigail Reynolds -

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"Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing."

- Philip Roth -

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"Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record."

- Lemony Snicket -

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"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."

- E.M. Forster -

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"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."

- Louis L'Amour -

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"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."

- Neil Gaiman  -

bianglala

"Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."

- Arnold Lobel -

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"In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed."

- Gail Carson Levine -

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"Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss."

- Nora Ephron -

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"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't."

- Gail Carson Levine -

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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

- Robertson Davies -

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      “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”  
  ―    Saul Bellow