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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…
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And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…
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If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…
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At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…
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Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
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The telling of stories creates the real world.
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Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally…
— Walter J. Ong
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at…
— Martin Chemnitz
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
— Alberto Manguel
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There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want…
— Scott Berkun
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Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small…
— Ha Jin
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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
— Pablo Neruda
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I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something…
— Julie Ann Dawson
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In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't…
— Jim Balsillie
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I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that…
— Farley Mowat
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
— Hermann Hesse
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I don't exist without writing.
— Jewel
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