The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. ...
As an author the question I get asked the most is, “why do you write?” My knee jerk response is, “Because I love it,” which is true, but not the whole truth. So here is my revised response to that question; “I write for the thirteen year ol...
How deaf and stupid I have been, he thought, walking on quickly. When anyone reads anything which he wishes to study, he does not despise the letters and punctuation marks, and call them illusion, chance and worthless shells, but he reads them, he st...
Duke Forrest: What's this here? Frank Burns: This is Ho-Jon, one of our mess hall boys. I'm teaching him how to read. Duke Forrest: Oh, is that right? You reading the Bible, huh? That's nice. Look, I'll tell you what, I got a book here. It's got alot...
Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.
Chaga mycelium is relatively easy to grow by using methods already practiced elsewhere in the mushroom industry. Its mycelium is initially an off-whitish color, deepening with age.
At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. It's a hard feeling to shake off. Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
It's a time of war, Alera. [...] Nothing is fair, and nothing is right, and it isn't easy to understand or accept.
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.
I like my relationships like I like my eggs. Over easy.
It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo")
it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.
Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.
How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
