Readings Quotes (page 73)

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• time
• culture
• history

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them."(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History) David McCullough

• bereavement
• good
• die

Most people in this country are looking for literature that is useful. They feel that just exploring their feelings is good enough - they should be reading about leveraged buy-outs or how to get thin. We live in a culture that is so absolutely, madly focused on commercialism and on creating money and completely turned away from any other kind of creative value. People don't generally turn to poetry unless they're bereaved or have fallen in love. Or in adolescence, when their feelings are very... Erica Jong

• reading
• writing
• reads

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read. Jeanette Winterson

• dance
• reading
• world

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. Voltaire

• time
• simple
• reading

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Stephen King

• personality
• personal
• saying

This isn't about love and hate," Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their child. They just want the child tosleep. They just want to dominate. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way. The masochist bullies the sadist intoaction. The most passive person is actually an aggressor. Chuck Palahniuk

• reading
• cat
• street

It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map. J. K. Rowling

• life
• to live
• reading

Who's Mrs. Gummidge?' 'If you're a good girl and get well soon I'll lend you the book.' 'Oh, somebody in a book! All you people like Nilla and the Cornishes and that man Darcourt seem to live out of books. As if everything was in books!' 'Well, Schnak, just about everything is in books. No, that's wrong. We recognize in books what we've met in life. But if you'd read a few books you wouldn't have to meet everything as if it had never happened before, and take every blow right on the chin.... Robertson Davies

• journey
• memorial
• book

If you take a book with you on a journey,’ Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, ‘an odd thing happens: the book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. Cornelia Funke

• look
• you me
• angel

Gideon opened his and read, “Prosperity will knock on your door soon.” I snorted. Cary shot me a look. “I know, right? You snatched someone else’s cookie, Cross.” “He better not be anywhere near someone else’s cookie,” I said dryly. Reaching over, Gideon plucked half of mine out of my fingers. “Don’t worry, angel. Your cookie is the only one I want. Sylvia Day

• book
• reading
• writing

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. Fran Lebowitz

• book
• reading books
• reading

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books Jodi Picoult

• reading
• writing
• some

If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten. Edgar Rice Burroughs

• book
• happy him
• personality

What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does... Fernando Pessoa

• reading
• science
• been

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. C. S. Lewis