Best Writers Reading Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.”

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Book:Playing in the Dark

Source: Playing in the Dark

“The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”

“The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.”

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Author:Gene Fowler

“Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.”

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Author:John W. Campbell

“Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new”

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Author:Rory Sutherland

“A great book should leave you with many experiences.”

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Book:Conversations with William Styron

Source: Conversations with William Styron

“As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.”

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Author:Scott Foley

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

Source: A Gift of Wings

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”

“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

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

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

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Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“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

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

Source: Letters

“If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”

Source: On Reading

“We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”

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Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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Book:Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

Source: The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

Source: Essays

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“Books had instant replay long before televised sports.”

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Author:Bernard Williams

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”

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Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

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Author:Daniel Handler

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”

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Book:The Basic Kafka

Source: The Basic Kafka

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”

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Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“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.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.”

Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

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

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Author:Stephen King

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

“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.”

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Book:Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

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