"After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more."

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Source : Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.51, Penguin

Jasper Fforde

#Summer Quotes #Reading Quotes #Healing Quotes

“Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.”

Source : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.
“If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.”
“Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.”
“Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity”
“What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.”
“The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.”
“I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.”

Source : "O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Respond to Jon Stewart's Criticism of Fox News". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2010.
“You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.”

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