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

vanillaninja

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

–Vera Nazarian

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

–Haruki Murakami

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There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.

–Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

–Maya Angelou

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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

–John Green

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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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Beware of the person of one book.

–Thomas Aquinas

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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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I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

–William Lyon Phelps

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

–Joseph Brodsky

seribulan

“I cannot live without books.” — Thomas Jefferson

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      “A Word is Dead

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”  
  ―    Emily Dickinson

seribulan

      “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”  
  ―    Edgar Allan Poe

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      “You are never too old to become younger!”  
  ―    Mae West

bianglala

"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."

- Jorge Luis Boges -

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"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement."

- B.F Skinner -

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"I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised."

- Wistawa Szymborska -

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"Don’t just teach your children to read…
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything."

- George Calin -

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"Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man."

- Vladimir Nabokov -

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"A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle..."

- Vladimir Nabokov -