“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
Category Archives: Quotes
Reading Makes a Story
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“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Relief for Any Distress
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“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
~ Charles de Montesquieu
Privilege and Gift
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“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