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Post by dtaymoore on Nov 20, 2011 6:39:37 GMT -5
"Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." - William Faulkner That quote helped me more with essay writing than fiction. But hey, whatever inspires the essays  But a more personal quote I like comes from Vladimir Nabokov: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child." |
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Nov 21, 2011 17:21:58 GMT -5
"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child." This quote is relevant to my entire life. Just change "child" to "drunk monkey." |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Nov 26, 2011 3:00:44 GMT -5
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Dec 14, 2011 13:38:14 GMT -5
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote
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Dobby
Young Armadillo
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Post by Dobby on Dec 24, 2011 1:23:56 GMT -5
"If only there could be an invention...that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again." - Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca
"** A Definition Not Found In The Dictionary** Not Leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children."
- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
And I thought these two were especially pertinent to English Majors:
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” - Abraham Lincoln
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Dec 24, 2011 3:47:58 GMT -5
"If only there could be an invention...that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again." - Daphne DuMaurier, RebeccaThis has been invented. It is called a book. |
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Post by mallory on Dec 26, 2011 17:34:35 GMT -5
"There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all." -- Oscar Wilde
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