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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.”
― Ray Bradbury |
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“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”
― James Van Pelt |
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“10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don’t want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don’t.
Write every day.
Keep writing.”
― Brian Clark |
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“Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.”
― Anthony Burgess |
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“When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc |
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“Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.”
― Joseph Conrad |
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“Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.”
― Robert Penn Warren |
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“Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.”
― Evinda Lepins |
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“Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.”
― Stephanie Connolly |
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“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.”
― Raymond Chandler |
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“How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of you? Falling or flying towards you, losing or finding myself in you and beauty was never the word to catch all that you are. For now I know the means of the infinite and it all starts and ends with you.”
― Robert M. Drake |
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“I could not think without writing.”
― Jean Piaget |
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“When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought to continue with the work; it would be cowardly to retreat. But when writing goes smoothly–why then one certainly should keep on working, since it would be stupid to stop. Consequently one is always writing or should be writing.”
― Joyce Carol Oates |
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“Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.”
― Robert M. Drake |
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“The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.”
― Jules Renard |
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“For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.”
― Dan Kennedy |
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“Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.”
― George Orwell |
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“If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.”
― George Pelecanos |
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“Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.”
― Margaret Atwood |
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Post time 6-6-2018 11:53 PM
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