Showing posts with label fact. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fact. Show all posts
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Friday, July 5, 2019
Friday, January 18, 2019
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, on libraries:
The love of learning,
the sequestered nooks,
and all the sweet serenity of books.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Friday, August 31, 2018
Friday, August 10, 2018
Friday, August 3, 2018
Andrew Carnegie, on libraries:
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people.
It is a never failing spring in the desert.
- Andrew Carnegie.
Friday, July 20, 2018
Zadie Smith, on libraries:
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know.
It was absolutely essential.
- Zadie Smith.
Friday, July 13, 2018
Friday, June 8, 2018
Andrea Barrett, on writing:
I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world.
We all feel unhoused in some sense.
That's part of why we write.
We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, were not of it.
You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.
- Andrea Barrett.
Friday, May 25, 2018
Friday, April 27, 2018
Meg Cabot, on writing:
Write the kind of story you would like to read.
People will give you all sorts of advice about writing,
but if you are not writing something you like,
no one else will like it either.
- Meg Cabot.
Friday, February 9, 2018
John Wooden, on learning:
The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated.
Repetition is the key to learning.
- John Wooden.
Friday, February 2, 2018
Harper Lee, on writing:
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that,
before developing his talent,
he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
- Harper Lee.
Howard Jacobson, on writing:
When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote:
once writing meant writing and not thinking about writing, I knew nothing of any torment.
- Howard Jacobson.
Monday, December 18, 2017
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Wisdom:
Meditate.
Live purely.
Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!
Shine.
- Buddha.
Friday, November 10, 2017
Friday, October 20, 2017
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