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“You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.”

Knows Writing Book Ends Reading Reading Or Writing

Author:Lynda Barry

“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”

“My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.”

Thinking Writing Important Ends Sometimes Wanted Used Mother Reading Hours Letters Stealing The End Of The Day Thieves Tails Midnight Sneak Knitting Reading Or Writing

Author:Marita Golden

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing”

People Writing Helping Inspiration Reading Alcohol Greek Tedious Buzz Bland Reading Or Writing

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.”

Writing Important Reading Bits Term Brain Development Performances Musical Brain Development Reading Or Writing Musical Performance

Author:Oliver Sacks

“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.”

Writing Reading Praying Laziness Idle Literacy Meditating Public Good Reading Or Writing

Book:Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume

Source: Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume

“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.”

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.”

Writing Reading Rooms Television Shy Watching Television Reading Or Writing

Author:Johnny Cash

“[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.”

Writing Important Use Remember Reading Talking Symbols Remember When Reading Or Writing

Author:John Green

“I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.”

Writing Stills Reading Fun Reading Or Writing

Author:Rex Stout

“At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.”

Writing Stories Together Reading Creative Survival Twelve Counting Eleven Creative Power Writing Stories Reading Or Writing

Author:Todd Solondz

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.”