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

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“I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”

— Wisawa Szymborska

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“Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”

– Lloyd Alexander

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“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

– Roald Dahl

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“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”

– Natalie Goldberg

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"Writing is really a way of thinking — not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet."

—Toni Morisson

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“Write what should not be forgotten.”

—Isabel Allende

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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

—Anas Nin

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"You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page."

—Annie Proulx

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“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”

— Sherman Alexie

bianglala

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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…So that if I may not write beautiful books, I may at least read beautiful books; and what joy can be greater?

— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

seribulan

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” — Richard Bach

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"I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't."

— Philip Hensher

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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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"The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own."

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

seribulan

“Don’t worry about what you’re writing or whether it’s good or even whether it makes sense.” — Lauren Oliver

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“Start before you’re ready.” — Steven Pressfield

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“When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus

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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”  — Ernest Hemingway

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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” — Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler)