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

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“One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.”

― Keith Gessen

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“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

― Joan Didion

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“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

― Aristotle

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“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”

― Robin McKinley

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“The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.”

― John Green

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“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”

― Winston S. Churchill

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“I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.”

― Franz Kafka

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“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”

― George R.R. Martin

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“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”

― P.G. Wodehouse

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“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”

― Gloria Steinem

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“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”

― Harper Lee

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“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”

― Margaret Atwood

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“Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.”

― Laurie Anderson

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“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”

― Anne Frank

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“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”

― Rachel Carson

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“Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.”

― Oscar Wilde