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

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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.”
― Elvis Costello

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“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”
― Herman Melville

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“It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand.”
― John Wick

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“You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. ”
― Norman Mailer

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“She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact reference to location. Their words are lush like the land they come from, filled with nine aunties, people named Bubba.
― Natalie Goldberg

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There is something extravagant and wild about what they have to say — snakes on the roof of a car, swamps, a delta, sweat, the smell of sea, buzz of an air conditioner, Coca-Cola — something fertile, with a hidden danger or shame, thick like the humidity, unspoken yet ever-present.
― Natalie Goldberg

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Often when a southerner reads, the members of the class look at each other, and you can hear them thinking, gee, I can't write like that. The power and force of the land is heard in the piece. These southerners know the names of what shrubs hang over what creek, what dogwood flowers bloom what color, what kind of soil is under their feet.
― Natalie Goldberg

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“Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace
it.”
― Veronica Roth

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“I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.”
― William Carlos Williams

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“For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.”
― May Sarton

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“It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

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“Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.”
― Laura Kasischke

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“Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!”
― Dave Barry

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“Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass."
― Quentin R. Bufogle

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Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm unable to scratch; a dinner invitation from a cannibal; elevator music for a narcoleptic.
― Quentin R. Bufogle

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"Writing is the hope of lifting all boats by pissing in the ocean. Writing isn't something that makes me happy like a good cup of coffee. It's just something I do because not writing, as I've found, is so much worse.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle