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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. All they do is show you’ve been to college.”
– Kurt Vonnegut |
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“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
- William Faulkner |
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“The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written.”
- Joyce Carol Oates |
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“As much as I like it when a book I’m writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.”
- David Morrell |
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Post time 7-5-2018 08:32 AM
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[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
Simon Van Booy |
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Post time 7-5-2018 08:33 AM
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Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.
Melissa Marr |
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Post time 7-5-2018 08:33 AM
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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
Louis L'Amour |
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Post time 7-5-2018 08:34 AM
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Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
C.S. Lewis |
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“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
― Joan Didion |
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“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
― Aristotle |
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“The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.”
― John Green |
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“I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.”
― Franz Kafka |
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“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. ”
― Winston S. Churchill |
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“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
― T.S. Eliot |
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“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa |
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“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”
― George R.R. Martin |
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“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”
― Robin McKinley |
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“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”
― Joss Whedon |
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“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
― Gloria Steinem |
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