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- All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel…
- The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
- We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
- I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned…
- I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made…
- I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those…
- Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.
- Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
- All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
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