Real people are made out of a whole lot of things–flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

Thomas C. Foster
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The writer Natalie Goldberg says that the only thing that matters in writing is the meaning of the sentence, not the words themselves. She goes further to say that “it’s not the words but the meaning of the words that makes literature.” This quote captures all of this better than I can explain it.

Source: How To Read Literature Like A Professor: A Lively And Entertaining Guide To Reading Between The Lines

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