Bonsai Quote by Alejandro Zambra Download Open image “To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.” — Alejandro Zambra ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bonsai Books Faces Inspiring-writers Reading Shows Ways-of-going-home Writing
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves — John Green Copy Share Image
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves,… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read. — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. Words have a weight to them.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“...she feels a desire to go to the bridge, alone, to throw something over the rail, into the current—a photograph, a hat, anything; she… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“She knows that very soon Ernesto won't come back. She imagines herself disconcerted, then furious, and finally invaded by a decisive calm. It's all… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“The novel belongs to our parents, I thought then, I think now. That's what we grew up believing, that the novel belonged to our… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“Julián didn’t want to regain his love, since he had stopped loving her a long time ago. He had stopped loving her one second… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of.… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult:… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“What greater happiness than to know that move exists, that I can watch it many times, that I can watch it always.” — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you — John Naka Copy Share Image
Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why. — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“There are no borders in bonsai. The dove of peace flies to palace as to humble house, to young as to old, to rich… — John Yoshio Naka Copy Share Image
The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree. — John Naka Copy Share Image
“It’s utter sublimation, A feat, this heart’s control Moment to moment To scale all love down To a cupped hand’s size” — Edith L. Tiempo Copy Share Image
I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus,… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
