...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...

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“The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.”
― Walter Mosley

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“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
― Raymond Chandler

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“I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
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― Alice Munro

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“Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”
― Toni Morrison

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“Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. ”
― Jennifer Weiner

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“Inspiration comes of working every day.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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“It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."
― Anton Chekhov

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" The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“Imagination is Everything!”
― Termina Ashton

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“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ”
― Brenda Ueland

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“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”
― Gilles Deleuze

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“You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”
― Orson Scott Card

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“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran

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“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

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“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

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“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
― Kahlil Gibran