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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are
― W. Somerset Maugham |
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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.
― Stephen King |
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
― Ernest Hemingway |
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“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
Beatrix Potter |
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth |
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical;
don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.
Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka |
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
Neil Gaiman |
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A word after a word after a word is power
Margaret Atwood |
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You can make anything by writing.
C.S. Lewis |
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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
Neil Gaiman |
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Tears are words that need to be written.
Paulo Coelho |
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I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.
Joss Whedon |
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Writing is like sex.
First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends,
and then you do it for money.
Virginia Woolf |
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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.
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Annie Proulx |
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A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Caroline Gordon |
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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.
Neil Gaiman |
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Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
Philip José Farmer |
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Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. —Voltaire |
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Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.
Daphne du Maurier |
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
*so true |
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