I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
Simon Van BooyIt is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them part of your blood; let the enriched blood visit your brain. The resultant activities will be fairly your own, and the little kinks and convolutions of your brain, which are entirely different from the kinks of any other brain, will furnish you all the style you will ever get.
There are no really fresh ideas; just as there is not any fresh air. Air and ideas are refreshed and refreshing, vitalized and vitalizing; but the thoughts have been thought before and the air has been breathed before.
Tags: style reading writing originality ideas great-books
There are more writers who read than readers who write.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: reading books writing writers readers
She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like a lover, savouring every chapter, going too far some nights until the letters danced like insects and she was groggy next day at work. But still she'd sneak away for lunchtime trysts, her eager fingers fumbling for the bookmark.
Cath StaincliffeIt is just as honorable. . .to dig in the dirt as to dig into books. The mind can do its best work only when th body has been developed equally well.
William Warren PrescottTags: reading
No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough great books to occupy us during all our short and busy years. If we are wise, we will resolutely avoid all but the richest and the best.
J.R. MillerYes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information for your self-development? Knowledge doesn't chase people; people chase knowledge and information.
Israelmore AyivorTags: reading knowledge learning read bible book news reader information library bookshop bookstore food-for-thought development study self-development learn graduate buy know active-learning store develop pamphlets graphics motivational-books phd inspirational-books israelmore-ayivor developing handouts book-shelf book-shop book-store develop-yourself leaflets learner story-books tracts
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Jane AustenA closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: reading books stories read story horse adventures tale tales richelle book-quotes richelle-goodrich
Closed books are like closed eyes—you must open them to see anything.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: reading books richelle book-quotes richelle-goodrich
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