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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.”
― Ernest Hemingway |
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“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”
― Carolyn See |
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“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
― Zora Neale Hurston |
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“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.”
― H.G. Wells |
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“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”
― John Berger |
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" An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.”
― Mark Twain |
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“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
― Terry Pratchett |
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“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
― Benjamin Disraeli |
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“Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.”
― Robert M. Drake |
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“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
― Alfred Hitchcock |
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“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”
― Robert M. Drake |
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“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.”
― Red Haircrow |
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“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”
― Jules Renard |
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“You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.”
― Woody Allen |
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“I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.
And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring.”
― Alysha Speer |
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“She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.”
― Christopher Poindexter |
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“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”
― Ernest Hemingway |
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“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell |
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“Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.”
― Ernest Hemingway |
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“The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.”
― Franz Kafka |
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Post time 14-5-2018 09:33 PM
