When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Jonathan Swift
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  3. If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. - Stephen King

  4. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. - Robert Frost

  5. Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not,... - William Faulkner

More Quotes By Jonathan Swift
  1. May you live every day of your life.

  2. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

  3. The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

  4. That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

  5. Books, the children of the brain.

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