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

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“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

― Arti Honrao

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“Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.”

― Robert Mykle

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“Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.”

― T.K. Naliaka

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“The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.”

― Shannon L. Alder

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“I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.”

― Gore Vidal

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“I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart”

― Judy Croome

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“As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.”

― Quentin Tarantino

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“The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.”

― Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

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“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.”

― C. JoyBell C.

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“A migraine is the cockblock of writing.”

― Don Roff

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“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.”

― Ernest Hemingway

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“It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.”

― Primadonna Angela

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“I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.”

― Richard P. Denney

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“I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.”

― Katherine Paterson

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“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.”

― Edgar Allan Poe

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“When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.”

― Kai Strand

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“People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say, they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.”
—R.L. Stine

QueenIsolde

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King