I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
I’m wondering what to read next.
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
Life involves effort and growth. You won’t grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren’t becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we’ve always been a nation of doers.
A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.
My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.
I don’t want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
I’m just writing what I know. I’ve never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.
My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.
I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They’re either speaking or preparing to speak. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives.
I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.
There’s no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
Good books are for consideration after, too.