"The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some believed, as legends brought comfort."

Literature, Story, Legend, Myth, Tradition

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"Literature is analysis after the event."

Doris Lessing, English Writer

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"A book is as private and consensual as sex."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Literature, Story, Legacy, Writing, Memory

"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Literature, Fiction, Dream, Self, Truth

"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."

John Morley, British Statesman

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"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Literature, Books, Neglect, Reading, Culture

"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Literature, Reading, Books, Judgment, Quality

"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Literature, Reading, Novel, Theatre, Fiction

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"I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance."

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"Literature is analysis after the event."

"A book is as private and consensual as sex."

"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."

"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."

"I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing."

"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."

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"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy."

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"Bright light. You've always found your way."

"Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits."

"Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing."

"For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American."

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"I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance."

"The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character."

"Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions."