Reading Readers Writers Quotes

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Saul Bellow
“A writer is a reader moved to emulation.”
Saul Bellow

Tiffany Madison
“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”
Tiffany Madison

John Green
“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote ("NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS,”
John Green, Looking for Alaska

Marcel Proust
“We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to provide us with desires... That is the value of reading and is also its inadequacy. To make it into discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.”
Marcel Proust

“I am a passionate reader.
New interested books keep adding on my reading list.
My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

R.M. Engelhardt
“The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.”
R.M. Engelhardt, The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt 1989-2006

Ozzie Cheek
“Look for your heros in the books people write, not in the people who write books.”
Ozzie Cheek

Carol Cassella
“Raney flipped the book over and looked at the jacket cover, realized it was one of the books Bo had left at her house the first summer he'd been in Quentin--one of the few he hadn't read. "It's a novel, Grandpa. ENDER'S GAME by a man named Card. Orson Card," and she continued reading through the first page until he interrupted her again.
"I just got out of the hospital--I don't want to hear a story about people having operations."
"Well, what DO you want? LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE?
"At least I'd learn something useful.”
Carol Cassella

“Read, mediate and pray.”
Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

Nitin Namdeo
“A reader has always multiple views for a thing or situation, and this is the blessing of reading.”
nitin namdeo