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If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library.… — Stephen Leacock
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in… — Alberto Manguel
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting… — Alberto Manguel
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. — Harold Bloom
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. — Henry James
The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however… — Robertson Davies
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is… — Jorge Luis Borges
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the… — Donald Knuth
I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text. — Rachel Maddow
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. — Diane Lane
What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a… — Trevor Nunn
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I… — Daniel Pinkwater
People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty,… — Zara Phillips
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected.… — Leland Ryken
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after -… — Taiye Selasi
Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have… — Piers Anthony
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -… — Neil Postman
... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results… — Paulo Freire
We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction… — Paulo Freire

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