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

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“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

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“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it .”
- Bertrand Russell

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The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.

Stephen King

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E.L. Doctorow

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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."

― William Styron

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“God really must have had a sense of humor, because if I had to name my biggest turn-on, it was literature. And he had just recommended a book that I didn’t know, that wasn’t taught in school. If I were single, there would be no better pick-up line.”

― Kody Keplinger

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“Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.”

― Tim Gillespie

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“The passion to teach, to share deeply
experienced “lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.”

― Vera B. Williams

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“Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.”

― Suze Orman

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“True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul”

― Kunal Jajal

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“A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson

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“I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.”

― Patricia Hampl

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“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.”

― François Mauriac

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“Until you know who you are you can’t write.”

― Salman Rushdie

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