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

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“Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.”
― Tim O'Brien

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“History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.”
― Esther M. Friesner

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“If writing didn't require thinking then we'd all be doing it.”
― Jeremiah Laabs

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“A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

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“Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”
― William S. Burroughs

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“Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.”
― Richard Flanagan

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“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.”
― Robert Frost

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“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. ”
― Alice Walker

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“You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.”
― Carolyn Kizer

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“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”
― Aaron Sorkin

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“What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.”
― Noël Coward

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“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly”
― Ulysses S. Grant

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“(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.”
― Tom Wolfe

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“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.”
― William Faulkner

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“I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do---the actual act of writing---turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.”
― Anne Lamott

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“I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.”
― Clarice Lispector

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“We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.”
― Julia Cameron

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“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.”
― Lisa Cron

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“You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.”
― Sarah Gilbert