Reader Quotes - Page 2

Read a poem at a time, or two, or all, but give them time to sink into your heart. Read them again, read a portion, and stop and ponder. Visualize. Take it slow; let the poem show you what lies in your own heart. Let it fuel the words from within.

Salil Jha

The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case already prepared by the lower court. The feeling by means of which the author has separated out the materials of his work, during reading separates out again the unformed and the formed aspects of the book—and if the reader were to work through the book according to his own idea, a second reader would refine it still more, with the result that, since the mass that had been worked through would constantly be poured into fresh vessels, the mass would finally become an essential component—a part of the active spirit.Through impartial rereading of his book the author can refine his book himself. With strangers the particular character is usually lost, because the talent of fully entering into another person’s idea is so rare. Often even in the author himself. It is not a sign of superior education and greater powers to justifiably find fault with a book. When receiving new impressions, greater sharpness of mind is quite natural.

Novalis

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.

You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know.

All writers read, Ms Rainn. With dwindling amounts of books circulating imagination, the less writers of all mediums will be able to exercise their own imaginations.

You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's.

You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it.

This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.

No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.

A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine.

They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.

Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor.

The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.

The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

Isn't the smell of coffee the best alarm clock?

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.

Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.

I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read.

We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality.

There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it.

I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.

Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit.

The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination.

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible.

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can.

Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will.

There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan.

Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found.

It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power.

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.

I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.

Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.

Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?

Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try.

The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money.

Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray.

Tales of triumph are my favourite.

One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right.

Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.

Someone who was just nice didn't remain on your mind an hour after they'd left.

It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination.

You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.

Don't dare try to be heroes.

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.

You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

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