Wuthering Heights, however it may appear in retrospect, demands a reading of the utmost intensity, the feeling present in the writing seems to seek a matching response in the reading. If we turn from the story that Emily Brontë tells to the kind of ...
Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I had lived in, had visited and would visit again, just as all the people in them, every blessed one – Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Jay Gatsby, Elizabeth Be...
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be i...
Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and w...
I cannot recall having believed, even as a child, that the purpose of reading fiction was to learn about the place commonly called the real world. I seem to have sensed from the first that to read fiction was to make available for myself a new kind o...
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood book...
Read this to yourself. Read it silently. Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything. What a wonderfully weird thing, huh? NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD! SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND! DROWN EVERYTHING OUT. Now, h...
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his f...
Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others
Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.
I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.
You smoke to enjoy it i smoke to die
I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
Yes I still enjoy playing him. He's the best person to play isn't he?
I don't really enjoy watching reality TV.
I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.
I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.
