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• I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Writing, Books, Philosophy

• You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

  Saul Bellow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Change, Inspiration

• Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

  John Adams

  Topics in Attitude, Inspirational, Knowledge

  Tags in Writing, Political, Thinking, Books, Reading

• Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

  Lisa See

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Books, Reading

• The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Writing, Book, Books, Reading

• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  Samuel Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Desire, Man, Books, Reading

• I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

  Mary Oliver

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Writing, Reading

• The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.

  Kellie Elmore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Books, Philosophy

• It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

  Eudora Welty

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  Tags in People, Writing, Startling, Disappointing, Books, Reading

• A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

  David Sedaris

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  Tags in Writing, Reading

• One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Tags in Writing, Creative, Read, Reading
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  A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Writing, Magic, Books, Reading

• To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Writing

• Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Writing, Reading

• Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Words, Reading

• Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Writing, Reading

• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

  Robert Frost

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  Tags in Writing, Tears, Reading

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

  Oscar Wilde

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  Tags in Writing, Books, Reading
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  If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time, Writing, Read, Reading

• The material’s out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

  Beverly Lowry

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Writing