Reading Or Writing Quotes

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

  Stephen King

  Writing, Caring, Tools

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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

  Johnny Cash

  Reading, Writing, Shy

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• 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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiration, Reading, Writing

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.314, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Marita Golden

  Mother, Reading, Writing

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• 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.

  David Foster Wallace

  Reading, Writing, Hard Times

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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.

  Lynda Barry

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• 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.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiration, Reading, Home

  "Hitch-22". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. 2010.

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• 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.

  Todd Solondz

  Reading, Writing, Creative

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

  Rex Stout

  Fun, Reading, Writing

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• [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.

  John Green

  Reading, Writing, Talking

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Reading, Writing, Laziness

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1550, Moody Publishers

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

  Oliver Sacks

  Reading, Writing, Musical

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