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

bianglala

I can't remember not wanting to be a writer. As soon as I knew that writing was a thing and books were built and not born, rush-made, I wanted to write. Wanting to write for kids was a little bit later. I think children are readers unlike any other kind, in that they carry the books very close to their hearts. I think the books you read - especially when you're sort of 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 - they get under your skin.

KATHERINE RUNDELL

bianglala

I only write because it’s cheaper than therapy.

KATHY LETTE

bianglala

If I’m writing a novel, I’ll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I’ll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I’m not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.

NEIL GAIMAN

bianglala

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you’re waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

NEIL GAIMAN

bianglala

Writing is a constant process of learning. You never stop. And the best way of learning is to read, as widely as possible. The old adage about 10% inspiration and 90% hard work certainly applies. Writing is really about re-writing, again and again.

PARKER BILAL

bianglala

I usually do my best writing between midnight and two in the morning, and I aim for 2000 words a day when I’m working on a project. I’m usually pretty good about meeting my goal—although I sometimes have to battle my gigantic black cat for the keyboard to do it! Music is a huge part of my writing process as well.

R.M ROMERO

bianglala

Writing a book from the heart is terrifying because there’s a possibility that it will be rejected. But the only way to tell meaningful stories. Write what you’re afraid to write, the one you’ve been carrying inside of yourself for a long time. It may take your life in a very unexpected direction. It did for me.

R.M ROMERO

bianglala

Treat writing as a job.  It is the hardest job you’ll do – you’re your own boss, and everything you produce is you. Learn to throw out what isn’t good.  Editing is the most important part of the process.  And above all - read. Be in the world of words when you wake till the moment the book drops from your hand as you dose off.  Reading is everything.

ROSHI FERNANDO

bianglala

Write what you love. Plenty of people will tell you that being published is an unrealistic goal, or what you love to write isn’t “real” literature, but ignore them. Write what you love, and never apologize for it. Yes, it’s a long road to publication, but that’s a good thing. You’ll only make it if you have a story that you love with your entire heart and soul, and the only person that can ever make you stop writing is you. So write what you love, and screw the rest.

SARAH J. MAAS

seribulan

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr

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“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” — Oscar Wilde

bianglala

Write. Read. Write again. Read again. Think. Write again. Read more. Write more. Never stop reading. Never strop writing. Never stop thinking. Success comes from work. There is no such thing as talent.

SIMON STPHENS

bianglala

You don't have to write what you know, write what you feel.

LEE CHILD

bianglala

The reason I start writing about a certain subject is because I'm trying to understand why something is happening in my life or the world around me in a specific way. I'm very curious, so I can see something - say someone passing me on the street - and that sort of idea will cling on to me. I know if it clings on for long enough, I have to write about it eventually.

KERRY HUDSON

bianglala

Read as much as you can, not just the things that you’re told to read by parents, tutors, and reviewers. Read the back of the cereal packet. Read both good books and bad ones. Whatever genre you want to work in, you’ve got to get a sense for when you’re improving. Write as much as you can, and at some point you will find that the words take on a shape and rhythm of their own; it’s almost a physical thing to recognise what it feels like, that moment you change from being the person in charge of the pen to someone not deliberately creating something. You’ll find the point when a character takes off and does their own thing; you need to recognise that, and not refuse to let the character do what they want. Don’t use the characters as the puppet. Be a tool to the character, so you’re following along behind them.

VANESSA GIBBIE

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“Find the most important things you MUST do. Do those things first. Do other things later or not at all.” — Darren Rowse

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When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.

— John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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MissHazel

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