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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“How can you write if you can't cry?”
― Ring Lardner |
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“I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.”
― Tiffany Madison |
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“She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.”
― Robert M. Drake |
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“I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?”
― Irwin Shaw |
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“With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.”
― Robert M. Drake |
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“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”
― Kurt Vonnegut |
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“Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!”
― Brian Jacques |
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“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.”
― Socrates |
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"But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.”
― Mary Gaitskill |
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“Never put off writing until you are better at it.”
― Gary Henderson |
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“You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?”
― L.M. Montgomery |
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“If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.”
― A.M. Homes |
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“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.”
― Vita Sackville-West |
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“Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.”
― Kurt Vonnegut |
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“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise
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― John Cleese |
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“My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.”
― Cormac McCarthy |
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“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!"
― Anton Chekhov |
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“I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.”
― Ann Brashares |
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“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.”
― Oscar Wilde |
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“I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r”
― John Green |
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Post time 5-6-2018 09:10 PM
