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Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis |
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein |
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein |
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde |
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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! |
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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx |
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye |
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde |
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison |
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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice |
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“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines |
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray |
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath |
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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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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird |
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King |
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman |
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 “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
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 “We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands
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 “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
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 “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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 “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
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 “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
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 “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
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 “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx
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 “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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 “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde
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 “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain
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 “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
tags: books, library, reading
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“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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 “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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 “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
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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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 “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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 “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King
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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis
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 “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
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 “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert
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“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin
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 “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon
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 “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire
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 “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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 “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
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 “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's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
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 “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost
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Practise – write every day even if it’s only for ten minutes. Remember, nothing is wasted. Eventually your style will emerge. Persevere!
EOIN COLFER |
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Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven’t been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.
HARLAN ELLISON |
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Post time 10-4-2019 06:05 PM
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