How to write

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.  - Mark Twain

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. - Joseph Addison

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. - John Ruskin

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.  - Henry David Thoreau

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. -  Henry David Thoreau

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions. - John Ruskin

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. - Henry David Thoreau