Books Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

“Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it…

— Roddy Doyle

“Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start - the way a map that shows to much…

— Haruki Murakami

“writing crystallizes thinking and distills meaning, and bridges the gap between the conscious and the unconscious.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

— Anonymous

“But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in…

— Victor Serge

“Memory was a tricky thing, but reality was even trickier. Once you made up your mind about something, it was hard to comprehend that…

— Sara Shepard

“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”

— Harold Bloom

“I don't even bother looking for words. It flows in me, more or less quickly. I fix nothing, I let it go. Through the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“My illusions about the world caused me to think that in order to benefit by my reading I ought to possess all the knowledge…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Maybe memory is overrated. Maybe forgetting is better. (Show me the Proust of forgetting, and I'll read him tomorrow.) Sometimes it's like juggling a…

— Francisco Goldman

“A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints…

— Michael Chabon

“For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those…

— Stant Litore