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- I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!
- Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons
- The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
- Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, 07-10-2006
- If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), Old Newsman Writes, Esquire, December 1934
- Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
- Henry Luce
- He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.
- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
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