Book Quote by Nancy Banks-Smith Download Open image “The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.” — Nancy Banks-Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Courses Form Invigorating Matter Reading
There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
'She murdered sleep' - on the death of Agatha Christie in 1976 (please verify) — Nancy Banks-Smith Copy Share Image
This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action,… — Nancy Banks-Smith Copy Share Image
By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing… — Nancy Banks-Smith 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
