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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“He’s an indulgent sort of man……
With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships.”
― Coco J. Ginger |
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“Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.”
― Jeanette Winterson |
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“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!”
― Edna Ferber |
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“The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.”
― Stephen King |
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“Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.”
― May Sarton |
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“Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”
― Alfred de Musset |
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“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.”
― Leo Rosten |
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“I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl and my angels branch and soar. I've died within myself and lived a thousand different lives. I too fight the same war and I too am drowning in the puddles of self-consciousness this world created.”
― Robert M. Drake |
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“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”
― Joe Haldeman |
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“Too many irons, not enough fire.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div. |
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“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”
― Maya Angelou |
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“I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.”
― Elmore Leonard |
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“I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.”
― Lorrie Moore |
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“Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.”
― Jeffrey Robinson |
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“Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.”
― Alberto Moravia |
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“Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.”
― Debasish Mridha |
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“Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself.”
― Genereux Philip |
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“You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.”
― Jayce O'Neal |
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Post time 4-6-2018 10:26 PM
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