top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."
Author Name
Personal Development
"With a book he was regardless of time."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
Action
"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
Time
"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."
Man
"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s."
Character
"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."
Action
"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."
Reading
"Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?"
Heart
"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
Time
"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm."
Life
"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall."
Influence
bottom of page