Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. –Cyril Connolly
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Quotes
More thoughts literary
Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks. -Dottie Walters
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. –Ray Bradbury
After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality. –Andrea Gerber
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Oh, darling!
They say you should murder your darlings, but this one from my latest project may prove difficult to kill, should it eventually become necessary:
If there was anything Muffy Montrose and Cookie Bradley loved more than talking, though, it was shopping. They went every other weekend, always with each other, usually with their daughters in tow, but never with their husbands, who were too busy working or golfing to notice the desperation their wives wore like the latest fragrance.
If he were being honest with himself, Michael felt sorry for these women. They were trapped in marriages that provided them every comfort but the one they truly wanted. Even their daughters had little respect for them. Maria was always going on about how her mother was such a doormat and how she should stand up for herself and how she would never let a man treat her the way her father has treated her mother. But then, he wasn’t being honest with many people lately, least of all himself.
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Writers and SQUIRREL!
Artsy types have the attention span of a fruit bat on crack – we love chasing shiny objects. Don’t believe me? Just turn on a pen light and dance it across a wall at a Starbucks. Guarantee you will lure at least two writers and a musician. –Kristen Lamb
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Even more literary thoughts
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. —Emily Dickinson
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. —Maya Angelou
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. —Steve Martin
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. –Richard Bach
A room without books is like a body without a soul. –Marcus Tullius Cicero
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More literary thoughts
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. –Gustave Flaubert
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? –Henry Ward Beecher
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. –George R.R. Martin
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Literary thoughts
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. –Jane Austen
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. –Oscar Wilde
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Finking
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. -Isaac Asimov
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Fiction vs. Reality
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. –Tom Clancy
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The writer’s mantra
Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty. –Chuck Wendig
REVENGE OF THE PENMONKEY: Wallpaper #3 (Photo credit: curious_spider)
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 