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

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.”

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

“I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it's often way past due time to put the comic up, and I'm already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.”

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Author:Kate Beaton

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

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.”

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Author:Julia Alvarez

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

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Author:John W. Campbell

“One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy of writing, and reading, we can discuss topics that are a little touchy, a bit embarrassing, and feel less alone in the process. Feeling consumed by memories from high school. Feeling wimpy. Feeling time-obsessed. Yearning for our fathers. Wishing we were taller, or shorter, or less average. To name just a few.”

“If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.”

“We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.”

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Author:Patricia Schroeder

“The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.”

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Author:Hisham Matar

“The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.”

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Author:Rick Atkinson

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

Source: A Gift of Wings

“I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it literally was the most time-travelly bit of pop culture we had in the mid 80's. I can talk about their tools for considering change. First, the book is metafictive in a traditional sense where I'm showing and telling the reader that the act of writing and reading is a reflexive way to push boundaries of real and literal time travel. Writers and readers are time travellers. The question is what we do with that time we traveled when we leave a book, leave a page.”

“I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend everyone edit a literary magazine at some point. It's time-consuming, but there's a lot to learn from other writers who are also learning. The patterns (twelve stories about whales in this batch?) are also interesting.”

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Author:Mary J. Miller

“Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.”

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Author:Julianna Baggott

“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.”

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

“Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.”

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Author:George Saunders

“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.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

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

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

Book:The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume

Source: The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume

“All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.”

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Author:Mary Oliver

“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

“I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.”

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Author:Anne Roiphe

“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

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

Source: Essays

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“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

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

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Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

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Book:How Reading Changed My Life

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“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

“Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them -- consciously and unconsciously -- your style will develop.”

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Book:The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

Source: The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

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

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”

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

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

“Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.”

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Book:What are Masterpieces

Source: What are Masterpieces

“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

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