Amenable Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

— Alice Hoffman

“Why do I read? I just can't help myself. I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated. I read…

— Gary Paulsen

Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however, certain cases,…

— Marcel Proust

Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to reading three…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still…

— Elif Batuman

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole…

— Billy Burke

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Grief is a very strange thing. It can affect you in all kinds of ways. I lost a year. I've done a lot of…

— Roland Orzabal