"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

Time, Beginning, Effort, Want

29

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

Exlpore more Time quotes

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

Woody Allen, American Director

Time, Nature

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

Time,

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Time, Future, Present, Philosophy

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Time, Childhood, Homesickness

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Time,

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

Time, Regret, Today, Future

"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Time, Choice, Priority, Life

"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Time, Life, Existence, Flow

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Time, Decision, Live, Responsibility

"Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Time, Now, Learning, Difference

Explore more quotes by Tracy Kidder

"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression."

Society

"When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life."

Life

"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."

Writing

"If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you."

Family

"What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives."

People

"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."

Writing

"In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place."

Travel

"Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru."

Health

"The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia."

Learning

"Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time."

Time