A book enthusiast from the early childhood I feel pleasure in reading. Some good quotes are hereunder: -
1. We read to know we are not alone _____ C.S.Lewis
2. Read in order to live _____ Gustave Flaubert
3. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader _____ Margaret Fuller
4. There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is one of them __ Jacqueline Kennedy
5. The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade __ Anthony Trollope
6. Reading is sometimes and ingenious device for avoiding thought ____ Arthur Helps
7. Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books ____ Bell Hooks
8. When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue__ you sell him a whole new life _____ Christopher Morley
9. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them ____ Joseph Brodsky
10. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting _____ Edmond Burke
11. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested ______ Francis Bacon
12. A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever ____ Martin Tupper
13. A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it's back on you and remains a friend.
14. A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy_____ Edward P. Morgan.
15. The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. James Bryce.
16. A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it___William Styron.
17. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. G.K. Chesterton
18. A good book has no ending. R. D. Cumming.
19. Books are quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors and the most patient of teachers. Charles @. Eliot.
20. Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. P.J.O'Rourke.
21. I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx.
I have a wife and two sons and a daughter. I work as an Accountant and simply start reading when I have a spare time. This is my most adorable pastime.
QUOTES ON WRITING: -
1. READ, READ, READ. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpengter wo workds as an apprentice and studies the most. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. if it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window. __William faulkner.
2. Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer._________John O'Hara.
3. There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be._____Doris Lessing.
4. Imagination grows by excercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.________ W. Somerset Maugham
5. However great a man's natural talent may be, teh act of writing cannot be learnt all at once._____Jean Jacques Rousseau
6. Good writing is supposed to evoke sesation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.__________E. L. Doctorow
7. Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a saleable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will enntually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to wrtiing a good book is to write on the people like you will enjoy._____ Richard North Patterson
8. Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.______ Ezra Pound.
9. If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison.
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