This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.
Anne FrankTag: reading
I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
Markus ZusakTag: reading books markus-zusak bhie
So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.
Annie DillardTag: reading books writing writing-craft readers-and-writers writing-process
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?
Annie DillardTag: reading writing understanding writing-life readers-and-writers
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
Eudora WeltyTag: reading books mississippi
We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand words and at the end, sum it up in one sentence; I am more for the one sentence. I am more for the essence. It's like how you need a truckload of roses to extract one drop of rose oil; I don't want to bother with the truckload of roses because I would rather walk away with the drop of rose oil. So in my mind, I have written two hundred books. Why? Because I have with me two hundred vials with one drop of essence in each!
C. JoyBell C.Tag: words reading books writing essence writers-on-writing writing-books gist precious-oil rose-oil
What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with excitement, and, shutting the book even with a kind of reverence as if it were something very precious, a stand-by to return to as long as one lives, one puts it back on the shelf.
Virginia WoolfTag: reading authors love-of-books
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read
Harper LeeTag: reading
Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
E.M. ForsterTag: reading books education learning scholorship
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