“it makes such differenceyou read”

— Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman 181

American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892

M. H. Abrams (1912–2015) American literary theorist

Cornell Chronicle interview (1999)

“Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.”

Leo Burnett (1891–1971) American advertising executive

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Leo Burnett Worldwide

“Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

“Easy writing makes hard reading.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

As quoted in Paris Was Our Mistress (1947) by Samuel Putnam, p. 128

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician

As quoted in "Hand Book : Caution and Counsels" in The Common School Journal Vol. 5, No. 24 (15 December 1843) by Horace Mann, p. 371
Context: This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.