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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire |
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
― Isaac Asimov |
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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
― Tim O'Brien |
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The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
― Anaïs Nin |
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Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.
― Harvey Pekar |
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
― Franz Kafka
*so very Kafka lol |
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Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
― Howard Nemerov |
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Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
― Meg Cabot |
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A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
― Lorrie Moore |
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An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
― Anaïs Nin |
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“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. ”
― Sharon Olds |
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“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus |
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“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
― Stephen King |
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“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck |
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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
― Hermann Hesse |
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“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway |
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