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

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“The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”
― Jean Little

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“I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.”
― Raymond E. Feist

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“What is written is merely the dregs of experience.”
― Franz Kafka

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“In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I wanted to love the world and be the change it so deliciously craved.”
― Robert M. Drake

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“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.”
― Kamand Kojouri

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“Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise difficult to address."
― Dean F. Wilson

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" On one hand a good book helps us escape our troubles, and on the other hand it can help us face up to those troubles by bringing real issues to the fore, often in a more manageable way, since the problems are experienced vicariously through the eyes of another.”
― Dean F. Wilson

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“It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.”
― John Yau

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“When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.”
― William Faulkner

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“So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.”
― Janet Frame

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“Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.”
― Gore Vidal

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“The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it. ”
― Bill Barich

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“Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz

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“The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.”
― Charles Slagle

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“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

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“And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.”
― Rick Riordan

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“He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.”
― Grant Morrison