Great Quotes
GREAT QUOTES ON READING (BY WRITERS)
Most accomplished authors say that the best thing a writer can do to improve his or her craft and ensure marketability is to read widely, but especially in the genre that the work represents. Here are some great quotes on the importance of reading—by some great writers! If you know more that should be added to this page, Contact Us.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. Stephen Ambrose
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams. Eric Anderson
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page. Augustine
Reading maketh a full man; conference, a ready man; and writing, an exact man. Francis Bacon
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers, but it is also full of fourth-rate readers. Stan Barstow
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Book of Common Prayer
Writers must read and read some more, so that your bloodstream is charged by the alcohol of fiction and you come, at last, to feel and see and believe in the visions that fill your head. Hallie and Whit Burnett
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Great Quotes And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision , and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. The Holy Bible, Habakkuk 2:4
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. Robert Byrne
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Sir Winston Churchill
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins
Books…if you’re going to be anything, they are vital in life. Roald Dahl
If you want your children to be bright, read them fairytales. If you want them to be brilliant, read them even more fairytales. Albert Einstein
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out. Nora Ephron
A good style simply doesn’t form unless you absorb half a dozen topflight authors every year F Scott Fitzgerald
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Great Quotes
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. E. M. Forster
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. Gilbert Highet
Read something positive every night and listen to something helpful every morning. Tom Hopkins, Sales Expert and Author
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent reading in order to write; a man will turn over half a library in order to make one book. Samuel Johnson
If you don't have time to read, you don't have time to write. Stephen King
A house without books is like a room without windows. Horace Mann
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. Toni Morrison
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Great Quotes One of the greatest gifts adults can give -- to their offspring and to their society -- is to read to children. Carl Sagan
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all Henry David Thoreau
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success. Brian Tracy, Business Expert and Author
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this it the ideal life. Mark Twain
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. Mark Twain
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. Gore Vidal
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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Great Quotes The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. Oscar Wilde
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