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The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#creativity #literature #writing #art

They paid people to write books!!! Until that moment I had a vague idea that books were produced in factories, like tires, or else they grew on trees, like money. ↗

— Gary Reilly

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A worthy quote makes you think A good quote states more than the obvious An excellent quote removes doubt A great quote teaches you something A genius quote changes your mind. ↗

— T. Crossley

#writing #change

I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#on-writing #motivational

I felt like poisoning a monk. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#letter-art #letter-writing #letters #art

If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#interview #motivational #rule #the-guardian #writing

If I’m going to write a book every American will want to read, it’s got to have lots of pictures. Those pictures must also move, and all the words in the book must be spoken and available audibly for all the readers to hear as they watch.

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— Jarod Kintz

#books #movie #movies #pictures #readers

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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