Reading Quotes - Page 13

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words'...

Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live!

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own-my words are gone.

I am not gifted. When I read, the words twist
twirl across the page.
When they settle, it is too late.
The class has already moved on.

I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them
then blow gently,
watch them float
right out of my hands.

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.

It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.

An author is a trigger to our own imaginations. We either go along for the ride, or we flinch and look the other way. Don't look the other way. Embrace the story, embrace the characters, embrace everything the author wants you to explore, because the written word is something for you to treasure in your own way.

Upon descending our threaded words on the web by a steep and hazardous precipice of readers requires constant review.