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

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“A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves us, as any marriage would, and just as no marriage is exactly the same as another, so each of us interprets a story differently, feels for it differently.”

― Yann Martel

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“The gift of literature is the grace of knowledge.”

― Lailah Gifty Akita

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"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
--Robert Frost

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"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
--Saul Bellow

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"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
--Mark Twain

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“at home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.”

― Lisel Mueller

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“If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.”

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of one mind to another.”

― Harold Brodkey

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“Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man’s audacity in his strivings towards goodness and beauty.”

― Maxim Gorky

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“Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts.”

― Debasish Mridha

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“My idea of literature, as I have often said, is that it should save lives. My idea of literature is that it once did save lives, and was of consequence in that way. I believe it can do so again. With every book, to the best of my ability, I try to put this belief in action, even if, as in some of the recent books, the best way to save lives is to cause laughter. Bring on your problems, and I will listen, and bear witness, and when the occasion permits, I will respond, according to certain general rules, on this page, in this hope that here too words may be redemptive.”

― Rick Moody

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“Literature endures like the universal spirit,
And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men.”

― Li Shang-yin

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“Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!”

― Mehmet Murat ildan

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“Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of.”

― Nikki Rowe

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“Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.”

― William Drummond

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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
– Truman Capote

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If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
– Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
– Jane Yolen

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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary—it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
– Somerset Maugham

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Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
– Orson Scott Card