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Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.
– Kira Hawke

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  2. If someone doesn’t understand the importance of sensitivity readers, chances are they may need them the most… – Kira Hawke
  3. The best feeling in the world might be when you finish a book and you get to pick out another. – Kira Hawke
  4. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  5. And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
  6. And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
  7. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  8. Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
  9. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. – Annie Dillard
  10. It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best. – Katarina Bivald
  11. For peace read books, for success read books and take actions. – Amit Kalantri
  12. To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
  13. I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. – Hugo Chvez
  14. Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone. – Wendell Berry
  15. To Whom It May Concern– Only four words of advice: It can be done. – Kira Salak
  16. Life is all but a dream we will soon wake up to and be 7 years old again – Kira Jeffries
  17. I know, but Jesus Kira, even Achilles had a weakness. – Tye Shirelle
  18. The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  19. When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna – Jorge Luis Borges
  20. The best writers I’ve read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much. – Don Roff
  21. Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers’ job specification. – Sara Sheridan
  22. There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work. – Nick Cave
  23. Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
  24. Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  25. Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself. – Ethan Hawke
  26. Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts. – Christopher Hawke
  27. We all see the world through the prism of our identity. – Ethan Hawke
  28. Males are simple creatures. If we can’t f**k it, we want to kill it. – Morgan Hawke
  29. With all due respect.- Victoria panted against the growing sexual hunger battling her temper for dominance. -œEat shit and die, sir. – Morgan Hawke
  30. I am not a f**king pleasure girl, damn you! I’m an officer! – Morgan Hawke
  31. I am not a f**king pleasure girl, damn you! I’m an officer! – Morgan Hawke
  32. Mankind made up a version of reality we could all live in. – Christopher Hawke
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  34. Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness. – Anthony Burgess
  35. My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. – Yann Martel
  36. Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves. – Mohsin Hamid
  37. You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
  38. I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I’m supposed to take when I one day leave this house. – Eve Ensler
  39. He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all. – Laini Taylor
  40. Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser

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