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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.” - Robert Aris Willmott
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“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” - Lady M. W. Montagu |
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“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” - Lady M. W. Montagu
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“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”
― Don Marquis |
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“I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write.
I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation.
But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.”
― Aaron Sorkin |
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“I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.”
― Karen Blixen |
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“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.”
― Oscar Wilde |
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“It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.”
― Don DeLillo |
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“Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.”
― Margaret Mahy |
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“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
― Stephen King |
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“I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.”
― Jake Black |
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“Writing is a mysterious activity.”
― Susan Sontag |
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“Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.”
― Michael McDowell |
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“Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.”
― Anthony Burgess |
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“The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”
—Robert Benchley |
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“Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.”
― Joseph Conrad |
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“Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.”
― Robert Penn Warren |
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“Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.”
― Stephanie Connolly |
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“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.”
― Raymond Chandler |
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“I could not think without writing.”
― Jean Piaget |
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Post time 15-1-2018 03:23 PM
