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

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“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
—Samuel Johnson

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“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”
—Elmore Leonard

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      “Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.”  
  ―    Jim Morrison

Wakefield

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
–Gilbert K. Chesterton

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You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
–Paul Sweeney

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Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape. – Nora Ephron

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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin

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"I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing." - Kathryn Lasky

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"Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out." - Pam Allyn

cheergirlz

service to others is the rent you to pay for your room on earth..

-Muhamad Ali

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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

-John F, Kennedy

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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.” — Nora Ephron

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