"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Reading, Wood

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

Roger McGough, British Poet

Reading, Poetry, Father, Soul, People

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Reading,

"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Reading, Learning, Discovery, Truth

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally " and often far more " worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Books, Aging, Learning

"In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Reading, Books, Friendship, Safety

"The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Spirit, Humor, Seriousness

"And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to."

Neil LaBute, American Director

Reading, Read

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Infinite, Talk, Want, Word

"Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Reading, Books, Inspirational, Joy, Escape

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"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"

Oppression

"Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-."

Liberty

"In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations."

Reality

"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."

Novel

"When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea."

Health

"It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil."

Morality

"We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it."

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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally " and often far more " worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."

"In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should."

"And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to."

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

"Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight."

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"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"

"In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations."

"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."

"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."

"That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law."

"Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is."

"When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea."

"It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil."

"We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it."