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

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“Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.”
― Joanna Russ

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“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”
― Y.S. Lee

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“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.”
― Nadine Gordimer

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“Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.”
― Lemony Snicket

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“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

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“If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”
― E.L. Doctorow

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“Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.”
― Violet Haberdasher

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Mark Twain

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

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“Create a guidebook of creative dreams

You can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between the images. Make a list of creative dreams you've thought of or admire in others. ”
― S.A.R.K.

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“Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush’s dog getting a book deal.”
― Timothy Egan

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“Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.”
― Charlotte Brontë

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“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race”
― Henry Miller

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“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...
So ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen

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“We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn't for our longing for these things, I doubt the novel or the short story would exist in its current form. I'm not going to say much more on the topic. Just remember: In dictatorships, only one person is really allowed to speak. And when I write a book or a story, I too am the only one speaking, no matter how I hide behind my characters.”
― Junot Díaz

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“But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what?”
― Peter S. Beagle

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" If you take a nap, time stands still until you return so you never miss anything. You receive a large journal filled with photographs, drawings and descriptions of your journey to take with you when you leave. You realize that you can board this train at any time.”
― S.A.R.K.

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“The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing—that's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.”
― Grace Paley

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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