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

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“Rereading, we find a new book”

― Mason Cooley

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“Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing.”

― Hira Shahid Kazim

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“Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.”

― Philip Seymour Hoffman

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“As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.”

― Jenim Dibie

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“Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!”

― Deyth Banger

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“Reading renews the mind.”

― Lailah Gifty Akita

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“True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul”

― Kunal Jajal

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“A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson

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“I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.”

― Patricia Hampl

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“The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.”

― Richard Peck

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“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”

― Stephen King

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“Menulis itu peduli. Menulis itu mencinta.”

― Helvy Tiana Rosa

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“No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent din in the writer's head. And then, if you want peace, you just have to pull it out and freeze it in print. Nothing less would do.”

― Jyoti Arora

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“Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution.”

― Roberta Gellis

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“Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.”

― Giando Sigurani

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“Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing.”

― Adam Gopnik

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“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.”

― Patrick Nowell-Smith

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“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

― Jo Linsdell

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“Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page.”

― J.H. Glaze

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“First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.”

― Anne Rice