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

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“A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.”
― Gaston Bachelard

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“So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”
― Shirley Jackson

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“You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.”
― Michael Chabon

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”
― Gertrude Stein

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“The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
― William S. Burroughs

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“I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.”
― Raymond E. Feist

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“What is written is merely the dregs of experience.”
― Franz Kafka

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“In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I wanted to love the world and be the change it so deliciously craved.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.”
― Kamand Kojouri

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“Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise difficult to address. On one hand a good book helps us escape our troubles, and on the other hand it can help us face up to those troubles by bringing real issues to the fore, often in a more manageable way, since the problems are experienced vicariously through the eyes of another.”
― Dean F. Wilson

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“If writing didn't require thinking then we'd all be doing it.”
― Jeremiah Laabs

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“So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.”
― Janet Frame

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“When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.”
― William Faulkner

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“Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.”
― John Yau

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“Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.”
― Gore Vidal