Reading Allows ‘…People Long Dead to Talk Inside Our heads…’ Carl Sagan QUOTES FOR WRITERS
For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except for first hand experience, almost everything … Continue reading
Don’t be Ashamed of your TBR Book Pile – David Quammen QUOTES FOR WRITERS AND READERS
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its … Continue reading
The Best Moments – Alan Bennett on Reading QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan’s Year in Books
Or what a busy housekeeper reads when two things collide: a good book and a few moments of leisure Housekeepers are not great readers. How can we be with the … Continue reading
Reading, writing and the Absurdity of Life – Anne Lamott QUOTES FOR WRITERS
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We … Continue reading
Why Reading is Part of Being Human – James Baldwin QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and readers)
American writer and activist James Baldwin explains how reading connects us with others QUOTES FOR WRITERS and readers
The Miracle of Books – Anne Lamott QUOTES FOR WRITERS
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds … Continue reading
Not Everything Needs to be Explained – Esther Freud
Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they’ll know it too. Esther Freud Photo credit:Pexels from Pixabay
…Books are patient where we are slow to understand…Carl Sagan QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the point of view of others, and … Continue reading
How you know it’s a good book…Paul Sweeney QUOTES FOR WRITERS
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.Paul Sweeney Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash
Reading “…this will be magic, heaven, and salvation. I promise.” Anne Lamott QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Books are paper ships, to all the worlds, to ancient Egypt, outer space, eternity, into the childhood of your favorite musician, and — the most precious stunning journey of all … Continue reading
Why I read – Zadie Smith QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I am fascinated to presume, as a reader, that many types of people, strange to me in life, might be revealed, through the intimate space of fiction, to have griefs … Continue reading
Read Anything You Want. Just Read, says Matt Haig QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Read Emily Dickinson. Read Graham Greene. Read Italo Calvino. Read Maya Angelou. Read anything you want. Just read. Books are possibilities. They are Escape Routes. They give you options when … Continue reading
Why life and reading begin after the age of 40 – W.H.Auden QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the difference between accidental limitations which it is our … Continue reading
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