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

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"Every man's memory is his private literature." - Aldous Huxley

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“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” — Gary Paulsen

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“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t xxxx them. Don’t sleep with people who don’t read!” — John Waters

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“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain

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"When I want to read a novel, I write one." - Benjamin Disraeli

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"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it." - Edward Albee

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"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope." - Kofi Annan

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“In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.” — Anne Fadiman

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"Reading a good book is like taking a journey." - Emma Gulliford

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"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach

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“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
—Ernest Hemingway

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“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
—Virginia Woolf

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No two persons ever read the same book.

–Edmund Wilson