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

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      “Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”  
  ―    Patti Smith

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      “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”  
  ―    H.P. Lovecraft

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      “When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”  
  ―    Stephen King

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Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

- Vladimir Nabokov

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

-W. Somerset Maugham

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“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”  
  ―    Anne Herbert

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      “No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”  
  ―    Elizabeth Barrett Browning