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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.”
― H.P. Lovecraft |
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“We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.”
― W. Somerset Maugham |
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“You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.”
― Ernest Hemingway |
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“Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.”
― Cornelia Funke |
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“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”
― Ezra Pound |
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“Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.”
― Jyrki Vainonen |
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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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“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.”
― Elizabeth Reyes |
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“Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."
Aristotle”
― Bruce Wayne Sullivan |
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Post time 3-6-2018 03:23 PM
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[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
Simon Van Booy |
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“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”
― Barbara Kingsolver |
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“Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.”
― Robin D. Laws |
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“I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.”
― Richard Bausch |
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“...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.”
― Alasdair Gray |
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“A writer always writes.”
― Don Roff |
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“My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.”
― Natalie Goldberg |
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“If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.”
― Jane Espenson |
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“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.”
― Carlos Fuentes |
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“If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.”
― Alma Alexander |
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“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.”
― Robert M. Drake |
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Category: Belia & Informasi
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Post time 2-6-2018 07:18 PM
