Adam Morris Quotes, Reading Quotes, Intense Quotes

The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of my methods for developing my own voice in fiction, a process I am taking very slowly and deliberately, is through these very intense encounters with certain writers. Strength and power in fiction is being able to resist these intoxicating voices, recognizing that they are the signatures of other writers and not one's own.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is the exact opposite - it's very constricted, all having to conform to a form. My sense of fiction writing is not to think about rules but to be driven by the characters and their stories. I often ask myself what's at risk here, who needs what, and how are they going to get it. There has to be a reason for the reader to stop living their own life and start reading your book.

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Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

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Words are the voice of the heart.

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No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

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Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Reading Quotes , People Quotes

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Reading Quotes , Poetry Is Quotes

...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Education Quotes , Reading Quotes

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Reading Quotes , Giving Quotes

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

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Tags : Abigail Spencer Quotes , Father Quotes , Reading Quotes

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Reading Quotes , Leaving Quotes

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Reading Quotes , Book Quotes

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Reading Quotes , Culture Quotes

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Work Quotes , Reading Quotes

People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes