Ishraq Othman > Ishraq's Quotes

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“كان الوطن الذي اجتاح كل ابتساماتي في الغربة.”
― Malak El Halabi

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway