Category: Inspiration (page 4)

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just…

“‘Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?’ Mo had said… ‘As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells… and then, when you look…

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” Fran Lebowitz

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” Mark Twain

“I’m always pretending that I’m sitting across from somebody. I’m telling them a story, and I don’t want them to get up until it is finished.” James Patterson

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” E.L. Doctorow

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Anton Chekhov

“I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.” Marchette Chute