And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so that these clever, complex statements form slowly and then bloom in my mind. Beethoven does the same thing with his cadence and phrasing and structure. It's a fact: Jane Austen is musical. And so's Yeats. And Wordsworth. All the great writers are musical. Andrew Clements
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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Stephen King
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
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Flannery OConnor
Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read...
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Donald Miller
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.
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P.g. Wodehouse
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the...
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Ernest Hemingway
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?
Robert said, "This is great, huh? Sorry to butt in and everything, but I really need the extra points. For my grade." Ben nodded and tried to smile. Right, for his grade. He probably wanted to get an A++ in social studies instead of just...
When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible to experience an instant sense of freedom and privacy is anywhere you open up a good book and begin to read....
But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.
