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

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“Literature is the real life of imaginary people.”

― Stefanos Livos

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“Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.”

― Amy Joy

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“To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.”

― Lawrence Clark Powell

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"Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed."

― John Steinbeck

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“Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”

― Charles Caleb Colton

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“What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”

― Brent Weeks

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“Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.”

― Lawrence Clark Powell

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“The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.”

― James Goldsmith

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“The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading”

― Vladimir Nabokov

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“The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.”

― John Irving

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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history,
there could be no concept of humanity - Hermann Hesse

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“Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.”

― Jonathan Stroud

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“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none”

― Jules Renard

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“You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.”

― Kenneth Oppel