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

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“Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.”

― Drew Goodman

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“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.”

― Russell Baker

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“Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.”

― Alan C. Martin

seribulan

“Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk—away from any open flames—to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.”
—George Singleton

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“There is only one plot—things are not what they seem.”
—Jim Thompson

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“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
—Virginia Woolf

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“The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”
—Andre Gide

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“I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”

― E.L. Doctorow

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“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.”

― Elizabeth Reyes

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“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”

― Ezra Pound

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“Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.”

― Cornelia Funke

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“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

― Y.S. Lee

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“You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.”

― H.L. Mencken

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“Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.”

― Neil Gaiman

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“I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.”

― Barack Obama

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“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”

― Baltasar Gracián

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“I write to understand as much as to be understood.”

― Elie Wiesel

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“Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it’s that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through—originality.”
—Jack Kerouac, WD

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A book is a dream that you hold in your hand - Neil Gaiman

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The world belongs to those who read - Rick Holland