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

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"Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia."

- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -

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"The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader."

- Charles de Lint -

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"It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power."

- Raymond Carver -

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"I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel"

- Haruki Murakami -

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"If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning..."

- Walter Mosley -

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"Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process."

- Isabel Allende -

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"I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven."

- Rob Thurman -

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"Good writing is good conversation, only more so."

- Ernest Hemingway -

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"Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all"

- Charles Bukowski -

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"True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics."

- Yevgeny Zamyatin -

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Family is not an important thing. It's everything - Micheal J. Fox

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Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home - Anthony Liccione

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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me - Henry Ford

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out - Walter Winchell

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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend - Albert Camus

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity - Khalil Gibran

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"Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it."

- George R.R. Martin

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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."

- Ray Bradbury

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"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."

- John Cheever

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"I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music."

-  Hunter S. Thompson