...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...

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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

— Edmund Burke

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A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat."

— Stephen Wright

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Books train your mind to imagination to think big

— Taylor Swift

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To learn to read is to light a fire

— Victor Hugo, Les Miserable

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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries

— Descartes

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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

— Edmund Burke

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There are worse crimes than burning books.  One of them is not reading them

— Ray Bradbury

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Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s to dark to read

— Groucho Marx

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested throughly
— Cornelia Funk

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It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little

— Dennis Parsons Burkitt

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When you sell a man a book you don’t sell just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life

— Christopher Morley

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A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket


— Chinese Proverb

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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Choose a book as you choose a friend

— Sir Christopher Wren

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

— Charles W. Eliot

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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

— Andrew Ross

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

— Jessamyn West

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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life.

— Helen Exley

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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.

— Clifton Fadiman