Easy reading is damn hard writing.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
― Mark Twain

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss