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There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer – reading is so much a part of it.

— Dermot Healy

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I often find poems hand written in old abandoned notebooks.

Penguin Group (2013)

The Bible has entered much of my work as have Latin and Greek mythology and verse.

Penguin Group (2013)

Without the reader there would be no writer.

It is a costly thing living here to fight the erosion. The sea is constantly threatening to cut into the coastline and sweep all this away. Every year we have to haul stones up here to repair the damage and plug the holes. It's a full-time job.

John O'Mahony (2000)

I know writing is what I do but I still don't see myself as one.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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