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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
— P.G. Wodehouse
I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that’s sinful, then let me be damned for it!
— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility…
— Susan Sontag
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
— Oscar Wilde
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one.
— George R. R. Martin
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
— E.M. Forster
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
— Aldous Huxley
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Posted May 23, 2012 at 12:39pm in quotes reading books writing writers lit literature fiction
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