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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.”
― Vladimir Nabokov |
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“A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.”
― Tim O'Brien |
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“There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.”
― Neil Gaiman |
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“I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.”
― Mel Brooks |
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“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”
― Muriel Rukeyser |
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“I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.”
― W.H. Auden |
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“I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.”
― J.K. Rowling |
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" Why don't we ask predatory bankers how they alleviate their guilt? ”
― Ariel Gore |
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“Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages.”
― Jennifer Murgia |
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“If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.”
― Shannon L. Alder |
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“We write by the light of every story we have ever read. ”
― Richard Peck |
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" Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.”
― Warren Ellis |
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"Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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“In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
― Rose Tremain |
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“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."
― Michael Connelly |
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“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had."
― Anna Quindlen |
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“The public wants work which flatters its illusions.”
― Gustave Flaubert |
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“Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.”
― Brian Keene |
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Post time 30-5-2018 05:30 AM
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