Books Quote by Katharine Weber Download Open image “This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.” — Katharine Weber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Examining Great minds Inspirational Literature Mind Psychology
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature. — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The United States is a conceited nation with shallow roots, and what happened before living memory doesn't seem to interest most people I know… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind. — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses,… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
“You might say she feels in italics and thinks in capital letters!” — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image