"Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and Âirritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes."

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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

A.L. Kennedy

#Needs Quotes #Remember Quotes #Good Things Quotes

“I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.”
“I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.”
“I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.”
“Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.”
“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.”

Source : Samuel Richardson (1820). “Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage”, p.255
“... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking.”
“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin
“There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.”

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