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

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“If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?”
― Jennifer Weiner

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“A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. ”
― Jonathan Carroll

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" To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.”
― Jonathan Carroll

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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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“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn’t."
— Lucille Ball

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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

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