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“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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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

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

“Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”

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

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

“What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other”

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Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.”

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Author:Margaret Mahy

“An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.”

Source: What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition

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

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship”

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

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.”

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Author:Richard Flanagan

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

“The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' - by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.”

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Author:John Barth

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

“I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.”

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Author:John McGahern

“Love of books is the best of all.”

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