Life Quote by Vincent van Gogh

“writing is perilous, as you can’t always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”

— Jojo Moyes

“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their…

— Alessandra Torre

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

“Beware of being only a writer.”

— Miranda Paul

“Read every day something no one else is reading.Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to…

— Christopher Morley

“take care, in reading the writings of philosophers or hearing their speeches, that you do not attend to words more than things, nor get…

— Plutarch

“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

— Y.S. Lee

“Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.”

— Leigh M. Lane

“It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read anyway.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and,…

— Joan Lingard

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is at least in my experience, the most healing…

— Harold Bloom