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“I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot of appeal to that. It's nice to think of it as this playful kind of thing. But I think that another way to look at it is "Look, I just want to be sincere. I want to write something and make you feel something and maybe you will go out and do something." And it seems that the world is in such bad shape now that we don't have time to do nothing but language games. That's how it seems to me.”

“Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none”

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Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.”

Source: Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star

“This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!”

“…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.”

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Book:One Day

Source: One Day

“The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.”

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Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”

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Author:Stephen King

“A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”

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Author:Jane Smiley

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”

“She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.”

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Book:Fangirl

Source: Fangirl

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

“For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.”

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Author:Robin McKinley

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

“Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.”

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Author:Hugh Mackay

“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”

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Author:Edith Sitwell

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.”

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Author:John Y. Campbell

“Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.”

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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.”

“Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.”

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Author:Stanley Schmidt

“Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.”

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Book:Trial and Error

Source: Trial and Error

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.”

“Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns out to be the revelation that the mad professor's anti-gravity device actually works, you must go back and silently delete all those flying cars buzzing around the city on page one. If you want to reveal something, you need to hide it properly first.”

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Author:Colin Greenland

“Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.”

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Author:Maida Heatter

“As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.”

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Book:You Must Change Your Life

Source: You Must Change Your Life

“The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.”

Source: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?”

“The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.”

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Book:The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing

Source: The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing

“Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.”

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Author:Bob Ney

“From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer.”

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Book:A New World Order

Source: A New World Order

“So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.”

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Author:Glen Hirshberg

“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts.”

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Author:Mark Vonnegut

“The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes”

“One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the course of any of these language activities, you run across words whose meaning or use baffles you, don't by-pass them. Look them up in the dictionary and familiarize yourself with them.”

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Author:Mario Pei

“Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.”

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Book:Reading: FAQ

Source: Reading: FAQ

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.”

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Author:Clive James

“Read, read read. Read everything.”

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Author:William Faulkner

“Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.”

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Author:Jamie Oliver

“You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”

“Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.”

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Author:Mark Bernstein

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”

“Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.”

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Author:Frank Lampard

“In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.”

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Author:Noel Coward

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