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“Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.”
Ben Okri quotes (Nigerian author who uses magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in his country, 1959)

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“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...”
Lawrence Clark Powell quotes (American Librarian, Writer and Critic, 1906-2001)
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“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
Paul Sweeney quotes
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“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
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“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.”
William Styron quotes (American Writer and Novelist, He is noted for his treatment of tragic themes and his use of a rich, classical prose style (Confessions of Nat Turner.). b.1925)
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“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
tryingpluto Don Delillo quotes (American Novelist born in New York City, b.1926)
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“Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.”
William Cobbett quotes (Pseudonym Peter Porcupine, English popular journalist, champion of traditional rural England against the Industrial Revolution, 1763-1835)
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“Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.”
Carl Van Doren quotes
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“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes (American writer and aviation pioneer, 1906-2001)
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection”
Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)
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