Books Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Download Open image “Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Force Inspirational Libraries books and reading Literacy Paragraph Reading
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words. — Charlie Bewley Copy Share Image
Keep building your word-power. Read, read, read. That way you will be able to say what you really feel. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
“It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it… — Kathryn Alesandrini Copy Share Image
Reading a book and having to re-read the same paragraph over and over again because your thoughts are too distracting. — AmiT Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
