"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."

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"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."

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"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

Reading, Read

"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Reading, Courage, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Reading, Pride, Books, Enjoyment

"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Reading, Escape, Story, Reality

"Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Reading, Books, Human, Emotion

"The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Reading, Books, Solitude, Joy

"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Books, Time, Passion, Escape

"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Reading, Wisdom, Bible, Books

"Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers?"

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Reading, Books, Internet, Focus

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Man, Sound, Wishes

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"When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist."

Life, Artist, Expression, First

"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."

Time, Reading

"I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor."

Love, Churches, Poor, Word

"I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world."

Difference, World

"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."

Reading, Writing

"We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places."

Religion, Canada, Heaven, Hell

"When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not."

Reflection, Abundance, Danger, Losing

"Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity."

Cultural, English, Identity, Ireland

"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."

Advice, Books, Direction, Television

"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."

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