I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to.
As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.
All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.
Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really good events. I like to read the ones that are based on both.
When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. “& I love Wordplay
They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, so what happens when the person's eyes are unavailable to look into? You read their words.
My goal is to encourage our little ones to make reading a habit. To enjoy picking up a book. So that the habit continues throughout life.
I read this on the gates to a village cemetery: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you’re going to be. — It puts things in perspective, doesn’t it?
Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.
When I say to a parent, 'read to a child,' I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
Reading non-fiction without writing notes is like chewing without swallowing. You will get the taste of it but digest nothing
The way I see it: Why get out of bed when you can read about people who got out of bed?
I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.
Figuring out the secret of the universe is like trying to read a brand after the steer's been made into hamburger." ~Will Durham from Crossroads, A Music Novel
The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.
I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written.
I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.
