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#1

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

#2

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

9100 likes

#3

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17570 likes

#4

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

9517 likes

#5

“It occurred to me that with all of today's technologies, there were now more ways than ever to know with abosolute certainty that no one wanted to get in touch with me”
― Linwood Barclay, Fear the Worst

42 likes

#6

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

2437 likes

#7

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: library

984 likes

#8

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151597 likes

#9

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23097 likes

#10

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

6410 likes

#11

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading

3619 likes

#12

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading

2711 likes

#13

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

tags: books, reading

2406 likes

#14

“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
― Lloyd Alexander

tags: adventure, reading

686 likes

#15

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, reading, travel

962 likes

#16

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9003 likes

#17

“There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…”
― Chris Geiger

tags: book, books, reading, reading-books

16 likes

#18

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: family, readers, reading

1499 likes

#19

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attractiveness, inner-beauty

1961 likes

#20

“Writers write while dreamers procastinate. ”
― Besa Kosova

115 likes

#21

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

6594 likes

#22

“There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.”
― Jo Linsdell

tags: authors, book-marketing, books, writers

9 likes

#23

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: books, literacy, reading

2377 likes

#24

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
― Harold Bloom

tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words

447 likes

#25

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20734 likes

#26

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

tags: expression, finding-your-voice, poetry

2623 likes

#27

“Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”
― Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground

tags: digging, poetry, writing

72 likes

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