Reading Quotes - Page 14

Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.

Literature is language charged with meaning

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter’s cursive writing.

There are stages we all go through when dealing with character deaths. Grief. Anger. Denial. Laughter. Coulson.

It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.

When it comes to literature, we are all groping in the dark, even the writer. Especially the writer. And that is a good thing-maybe one of the best things about literature. It's always an adventure of some kind.

Someone once told me people write down stories because they would like to forget, and those who read are those who would like to remember. Maybe I’m not ready to forget, and maybe you’re not ready to remember. This is what I recall; I’m sorry if it is a little spotty. I suppose it is what I have the strength to forget…

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn't shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of his family. They didn't involve getting muddy in the freezing cold. They didn't hunt inoffensive animals, either. They did what he told them to. So, he'd said, he wanted to write.

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read - and how he wants to write.

Reading non-fiction without writing notes is like chewing without swallowing. You will get the taste of it but digest nothing

I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.