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That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.
– Margaret Atwood

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  2. A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  3. The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it! – Sinclair Lewis
  4. Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard. – John Irving
  5. With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring. – Margaret Atwood
  6. He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle -“ that should be his tone. – Margaret Atwood
  7. A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. – Margaret Atwood
  8. Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone. – Kristen Ashley
  9. I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard – Malala Yousafzai
  10. Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading. – Susan Sontag
  11. It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading. – Clifford Cohen
  12. To start speaking my language start reading what I read… start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened. – Deyth Banger
  13. We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard. – Teresa Mummert
  14. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard. – Teresa Mummert
  15. The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means. – Barbara Marciniak
  16. I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence. – Gloria E Anzalda
  17. All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
  18. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
  19. Sometimes you may feel that your heart is speaking and sometimes you may feel that your mind is speaking. In reality there is only one speaker: Mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  20. What seeks you when you are not seeking, is the universe’s way of speaking to you without speaking. – Jennifer Sodini
  21. The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  22. When you pray, you are speaking to yourself. When you take action, you are speaking to God. – Steve Maraboli
  23. Speaking calls for risk, speaking calls for a sense of what one has to lose. Not just what one has to gain. – Anne Deavere Smith
  24. I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English. – AJ Jacobs
  25. When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself. – Bryant McGill
  26. A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. – Tom Stoppard
  27. A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. – Tom Stoppard
  28. There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
  29. When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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  31. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally -“ and often far more -“ worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. – CS Lewis
  32. No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50. – Gladys M Hunt
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  34. If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice. – Aman Jassal
  35. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. – Jalaluddin Rumi
  36. Writing a book isn’t just about ‘writing a book.’ Unfortunately, it’s about selling it, and getting it out to the masses. – Margaret Aranda
  37. How strange it would now -” like speaking without a voice. Is that what music is then, a ventriloquist with his doll ? – John Marsden
  38. You cats mind if I make it a trio?’ he asked me, and it was not a huge surprise that a dude of his appearance was speaking in Jazz Voice. – Jesse Andrews
  39. And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. – Virginia Woolf
  40. We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood-”heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant. – Deborah Tannen

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