Exciting things Quote by Mark Twain

“But I found out then, and never have forgotten since, that we never read the dull explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we…

— Mark Twain

“Reading is a gift, but only if the words are taken into the soul--eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Nothing is so tiring to the reader as excavating nuggets of meaning from mountains of words.”

— Harold Evans

“In this snug, oversafe corner of the world we need it, that we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the…

— Anonymous

“All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never…

— Julian Barnes

“We pursue our own solitary passions and seldom look up, seldom sense that it is we ourselves who form the swelling flood of history,…

— Thomas A. Day

“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.”

— Hélène Cixous

“In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a…

— George will

“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other…

— Virginia Woolf

“As this is one of those deep observations which very few readers can be supposed capable of making themselves, I have thought proper to…

— Henry Fielding