Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely. Edward Albee The process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader’s mind. Elizabeth Bowen, 1899 – 1973 The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I …
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Dec 30
Quote of the week: December roundup
When you’re writing stories, you take pieces of reality and pieces of imagination and you put them all in a container like a kaleidoscope and you shake them up, and then you turn the bottom the way you do in a kaleidoscope until its the pattern that you want. Judith Viorst Far and away the …
Dec 05
Quote of the week: November roundup
A library doesn’t need windows. A library is a window. Stewart Brand A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of …
Oct 05
Quote of the week: September roundup
Only write when your pillow is on fire. Elie Wiesel Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves. …
Sep 02
Quote of the week: August roundup
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. Marcel Proust, 1871 – 1922 The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778 Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. William Zinsser, 1922 – 2015 There are a thousand …
Aug 04
Quote of the week: July roundup
All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words. Amy Lowell, 1874 – 1925 Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some. Jean Anouilh, 1910 – 1987 Man’s greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another …
Jul 01
Quote of the week: June roundup
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. Harriet Martineau, 1802 – 1876 In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. Thomas Mann, 1875 – 1955 The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that …
Jun 02
Quote of the week: May roundup
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment. Hart Crane 1899-1932 A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives …
May 01
Quote of the week: April roundup
The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read. Tom Clancy, 1947-2013 One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment. Hart Crane, 1899-1932 Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, …
Apr 05
Quote of the week: March roundup
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. Albert Einstein But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in …