“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Leonard Bernstein on Inspiration
Sir Richard Steele on Reading
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Continue reading
Paul Valery on Books
“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” Continue reading
Jerry Seinfeld on Society
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” Continue reading
Jules Renard on Literature
“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on Reading
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” Continue reading
Christopher Morley on Imagination
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Writing
“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.” Continue reading
J. W. Eagan on Books and Movies
“Never judge a book by its movie.” Continue reading
Isadora Duncan on Experience
“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.” Continue reading
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