A Quote to Share
03 Mar 2010 1 Comment
This quote really speaks to me every time I read it. It explains my deep passion for blogging during my college days.
“Writing can be a true spiritual discipline. Writing can help us to concentrate, to get in touch with the deeper stirrings of our hearts, to clarify our minds, to process confusing emotions, to reflect on our experiences, to give artistic expression to what we are living, and to store significant events in our memories. Writing can also be good for others who might read what we write. Quite often a difficult, painful, or frustrating day can be ‘redeemed’ by writing about it. By writing we can claim what we have lived and thus integrate it more fully into our journeys. Then writing can become lifesaving for us and sometimes for others too.”
Henri Nouwen
I wish I can rediscover that passion I used to have.
Stupid Bookish Quotes
25 Mar 2009 1 Comment
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Taken from here are some of my ‘favourites’. 
(phone call)
I found a book “—” on your web site. It was written by my Uncle. I was wondering why it is so expensive? ($50)
- It was inscribed and signed by him.
Why should I have to pay for his autograph? He’s my Uncle, not yours!
A very nice, well-appointed lady spends about an hour browsing the stock, including the locked cases. After building a rather formidable stack of unrelated books worth over $3,500 (including some very scarce Mark Twain first editions), I couldn’t resist asking:
What do you collect?
- Oh nothing, but I will purchase these.
(My curiosity getting the better of me) A gift?
- No. I am going to use them to decorate my daughter’s bathroom.
(Silly me! I failed to notice that the books were all various shades of green. This is a good thing, since the books will soon be color-coordinated with the mold).
(Two women discussing Toni Morrison’s “Paradise”)
Have you read it yet?
- Well, I’m reading it now, but I only read it five pages at a time.
Why’s that?
- Well, I don’t want to buy it, so I have to keep going back to Barnes & Nobel to read it.
Bookish Quotes I Heartily Agree With
21 May 2008 Leave a Comment
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“Writing is the act of discovery. You want to discover your relationship with a topic, not a dictionary definition”
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down The Bones
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“No iron spike can pierce the human heart as icily as a full stop in the right place.”
Isaac Bable, Russian journalist, playwright and short story writer
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
Henry Beecher
Yet More Bookish Quotes
02 Mar 2008 1 Comment
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Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
~Groucho Marx
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
~Mark Twain
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
~W. Somerset Maugham
Americans like fat books and thin women.
~Russell Baker
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
~John LeCarre
The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I [haven’t] read.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.
~ Jacqueline Kennedy
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
~ Emilie Buchwald
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