Quotes 15141 till 15160 of 25152.
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Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
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Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
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Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
Source: Chocolate Soldier, by C. T. Studd -
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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