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" It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. "

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J. Abdul Kalam – Aerospace scientist and former President of India.

12 of Our All-Time Favorite Quotes About Writing

“Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy–which many believe goes hand in hand with it–will be dead as well.”
-Margaret Atwood


“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
-Gustave Flaubert


“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”
-E.L. Doctorow


“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.”
-Truman Capote

“Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For these two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.”
-Roald Dahl


“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
-Isaac Asimov


“Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of giving a story to someone.”
-Amy Tan


“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
-A.B. Yehoshua


“I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.”
-Charles Kuralt


“Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is that  you’re having a relationship with your mind.”
-Natalie Goldberg
“Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.”
-Meg Rosoff

Read more at http://blog.theliteracysite.com/quotes-about-writing/#DH4OL4GWKWPa1Xf6.99

14 Quotes About Reading That Make All the Sense in the World

“ONCE YOU LEARN TO READ, YOU WILL BE FOREVER FREE.”
-FREDERICK DOUGLASS


“A BOOK IS A DREAM THAT YOU HOLD IN YOUR HAND.”
-NEIL GAIMAN


“I THINK OF LIFE AS A GOOD BOOK. THE FURTHER YOU GET INTO IT, THE MORE IT BEGINS TO MAKE SENSE.”
-HAROLD KUSHNER


“IF YOU ONLY READ THE BOOKS THAT EVERYONE ELSE IS READING, YOU CAN ONLY THINK WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS THINKING.”
-HARUKI MURAKAMI


“THERE ARE MANY LITTLE WAYS TO ENLARGE YOUR CHILD’S WORLD. LOVE OF BOOKS IS THE BEST OF ALL.”
-JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS


“GREAT BOOKS HELP YOU UNDERSTAND, AND THEY HELP YOU FEEL UNDERSTOOD.”
-JOHN GREEN


“IT IS WHAT YOU READ WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE TO THAT DETERMINES WHAT YOU WILL BE WHEN YOU CAN’T HELP IT.”
-OSCAR WILDE
“MAKE IT A RULE NEVER TO GIVE A CHILD A BOOK YOU WOULD NOT READ YOURSELF.”
-GEORGE BERNARD SHAW


“A GREAT BOOK SHOULD LEAVE YOU WITH MANY EXPERIENCES, AND SLIGHTLY EXHAUSTED AT THE END. YOU LIVE SEVERAL LIVES WHILE READING.”
-WILLIAM STYRON


“I DIVIDE ALL READERS INTO TWO CLASSES: THOSE WHO READ TO REMEMBER AND THOSE WHO READ TO FORGET.”
-WILLIAM LYON PHELPS


“THERE ARE WORSE CRIMES THAN BURNING BOOKS. ONE OF THEM IS NOT READING THEM.”
-JOSEPH BRODSKY


“BOOKS ARE LIKE MIRRORS: IF A FOOL LOOKS IN, YOU CANNOT EXPECT A GENIUS TO LOOK OUT.”
-J.K. ROWLING


“IF WE ENCOUNTER A MAN OF RARE INTELLECT, WE SHOULD ASK HIM WHAT BOOKS HE READS.”
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
“THE BOOK YOU DON’T READ WON’T HELP.”
-JIM ROHN

Read more at http://blog.theliteracysite.com/reading-quotes-list/#IOcQcGFMtImGDRLg.99

Quotes From Authors About The Tragedy of Book Banning

“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.” — Alfred Whitney Griswold

Quotes From Authors About The Tragedy of Book Banning

“The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. ” — Max Lerner

Quotes From Authors About The Tragedy of Book Banning

"It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers." -- Judy Blume

Quotes From Authors About The Tragedy of Book Banning

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.” — Mark Twain

Quotes From Authors About The Tragedy of Book Banning

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs