Impactful quotes on reading & writing - Deepstash
Impactful quotes on reading & writing

Impactful quotes on reading & writing

Curated from: inc.com

Ideas, facts & insights covering these topics:

20 ideas

·

13.7K reads

26

1

Explore the World's Best Ideas

Join today and uncover 100+ curated journeys from 50+ topics. Unlock access to our mobile app with extensive features.

AYN RAND

“Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.”

AYN RAND

55

799 reads

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

74

6.5K reads

ANAÏS NIN

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

ANAÏS NIN

63

804 reads

JACK KEROUAC

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

JACK KEROUAC

52

723 reads

RALPH ELLISON

“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.”

RALPH ELLISON

43

601 reads

ROBERT FROST

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

ROBERT FROST

43

535 reads

HERMAN HESSE

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”

HERMAN HESSE

51

485 reads

GAO XINGJIAN

“Writing eases my suffering…When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”

GAO XINGJIAN

49

449 reads

TONI MORRISON

“Writing is really a way of thinking—not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”

TONI MORRISON

44

408 reads

JOYCE CAROL OATES

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”

JOYCE CAROL OATES

47

394 reads

BEN OKRI

“Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.”

BEN OKRI

42

347 reads

MORTIMER J. ADLER

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

MORTIMER J. ADLER

53

340 reads

KATE DICAMILLO

“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered as a gift.”

KATE DICAMILLO

16

97 reads

RAINER MARIA RILKE

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

RAINER MARIA RILKE

39

314 reads

ANNIE PROULX

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”

ANNIE PROULX

38

299 reads

J.K. ROWLING

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

J.K. ROWLING

14

91 reads

MALORIE BLACKMAN

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.

MALORIE BLACKMAN

13

85 reads

KHALED HOSSEINI

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

KHALED HOSSEINI

14

88 reads

WILLIAM FAULKNER

“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”

WILLIAM FAULKNER

47

290 reads

JHUMPA LAHIRI

“The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.”

JHUMPA LAHIRI

14

68 reads

IDEAS CURATED BY

yuyutsu

Content Curator | Absurdist | Amateur Gamer | Failed musician | Successful pessimist | Pianist |

CURATOR'S NOTE

Learn from the masters of the craft.

Similar ideas

On Writing

19 ideas

On Writing

Charles Bukowski

On Writing Well

16 ideas

On Writing Well

William Knowlton Zinsser

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Personalized microlearning

100+ Learning Journeys

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates