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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.”
― Dana Stabenow |
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“Arrogance kills creativity.”
― A.M. Riley |
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“In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.”
― John Banville |
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“Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have
made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.”
― J.K. Rowling |
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“All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.”
― Fran Lebowitz |
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“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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“A good idea always attracts other good ideas.”
― Patrick Ness |
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“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”
― Marge Piercy |
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“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”
― Dorothy Day |
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"I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.”
― Pat Conroy |
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I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone.
-Pat Conroy |
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I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart.
--Pat Conroy |
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"Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.”
― Sandra Brown |
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“I'm a drinker with writing problems.”
― Brendan Behan |
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“All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.”
― Neil Gaiman |
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“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga. ”
― William Zinsser |
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“Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.”
― Paul Valéry |
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“What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.”
― Margaret Drabble |
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“He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!”
― Charles Baudelaire |
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“Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.”
― Robert M. Drake |
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Post time 11-7-2018 07:28 PM
