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

seribulan

Piper3

words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.

j.k. rowling  

missselfridge

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." -  G.K. Chesterton

missselfridge

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read. " - Mark Twain

missselfridge

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

seribulan

      “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”  
  ―    Franz Kafka

seribulan

      “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”  
  ―    Robertson Davies

bianglala

"Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

bianglala

"I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve."

- Laurie Halse Anderson

bianglala

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."

- Marcel Proust

bianglala

"That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing."

- Anthony Trollope

bianglala

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."

- Epictetus

bianglala

"I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being."

- John Connolly

bianglala

"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

- P.J. O'Rourke

bianglala

"You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read."

- Dr. Seuss

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"Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism."

- Jorge Luis Borges

bianglala

"I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths."

- John Keats

bianglala

"Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself."

- Maxim Gorky

bianglala

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."

- Mason Cooley

bianglala

"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say."

- Flannery O'Connor