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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)”
― Storm Constantine |
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“A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.”
― Janet Fitch |
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A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it.
-Roman Payne |
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“The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast.”
― Roger Eschbacher |
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Building a creative dream life is not just about achieving, succeeding, or "meeting goals." It is also about floundering, stumbling, tripping and failing. ”
― S.A.R.K. |
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“Writers shouldn't fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. ”
― Pat Conroy |
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“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.”
― Paul Pearsall |
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“Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.”
― Glen Keane |
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“Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.”
― Ann Patchett |
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“If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.”
― Donald Harington |
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“If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”
― Kerry Greenwood |
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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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“I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.”
― Lloyd Alexander |
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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.”
― Raymond Carver |
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" 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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“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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“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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“Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. ”
― James Norman Hall |
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“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”
― Charles Bukowski |
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“It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.”
― William Golding |
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Post time 5-7-2018 12:05 AM
