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

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“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence”  
  ―    J.F. Kennedy

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1) "Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious."
- William Shatner

2) "Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."
- Isaac Asimov

3) "You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence."
- Octavia Butler

4) "Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take."
- J. R. Moehringer

5) "Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
- E. B. White

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“Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.”
― Frederick Smock

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“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”
― Paul Engle

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“A book worth reading is worth buying.” -John Ruskin

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“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

Rumi.

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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
                                     - Margaret Fuller

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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

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“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.” -Christopher Morley

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When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. - Christopher Morley

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. –Vera Nazarian

You cannot open a book without learning something. - Confucius

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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“All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.”
—Steve Almond, WD

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“All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.”
—Steve Almond, WD