Alice Walker Quotes, Reading Quotes, Writing Quotes

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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Reading is the basics for all learning.

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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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How well he's read, to reason against reading!

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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

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I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

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The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

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Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

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I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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