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

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“Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. ”
― James Norman Hall

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“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising."
― Stephen King

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“Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.”
― Melodie Ramone

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“I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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“To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.”
― William Gibson

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“It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-- a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring-- with immense, even startling power. It is possible to write a line of seemingly innocuous dialogue and have it send a chill along the reader's spine-- the source of artistic delight, as Nabokov would have it. That's the kind of writing that most interests me.”
― Raymond Carver

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“Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the darkness,
because sometimes the most beautiful
things begin in chaos.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.”
― J.M. Porup

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“Anyone who writes is too precious to lose. ”
― Carlos J. Cortes

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“As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.”
― Rita Webb

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“It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.
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― Morley Callaghan

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“It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.”
― Jonathan Franzen

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“I wisely started with a map.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

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“Writing is the emotional morphine.”
― Mariam Maarouf

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“Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”
― Ray Bradbury

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“I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.”
― Lauren Willig

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“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”
― Jean Little

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“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good”
― Thornton Wilder

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“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?”
― Roman Payne