Reading And Writing Quotes

“That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life failed me.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“As soon as I stopped trying to exploit my literary skills to advance my career or enhance my reputation, I found that I was opening myself to the text, could lose myself to the beauty of the words and in the wisdom of the writer. It was a kind of ekstasis, an ecstasy that was not an exotic, tranced state of consciousness but, in the literal sense of the word, a going beyond self.”
― Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

“People tend to mistake reading and writing with living passively. Words are actions. Language ignites thoughts and channels emotions. Each sentence written by a literary master is an act of rebellion against the intolerable inadequacies and the outrageous injustices of life. Contemplative reading and writing creates channels of empathy and decreases our sense of aloneness. Many liberating social movements trace their origins back to a heart-wrenching piece of literature.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A book can be simple but not a book reader.”
― nitin namdeo

“The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“It takes extraordinary mental discipline to transmit human experience without perversion. Truth telling is unnatural. Lying is an important aspect of humanity. We lie to other people to prevent hurt feelings and we deceive ourselves in order to protect our noble sense of being a good person. Dishonesty and inaccuracy preserves our quest seeking uninterrupted personal pleasure. I shall eschew pleasure seeking and cultivate precision of mind and moral character that precious truth telling necessitates. Reading and writing, along with observing nature and studious reflection on vivid personal experiences is the process methodology that will bring me closest to discovering inviolate verity of existence and becoming a doyen for all the immaculate truth, beauty, and goodness in this world.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Writers allow us to see ourselves more clearly, they express spiritual signposts that assist us find ourselves. Writers’ self-revelations allow us to grasp personal reflections that remain unrealized and indistinct within ourselves. Nuggets of personal perception remain veiled, until we read carefully chosen words sharing the author’s crystallized perceptions. Provocative authors resolutely tap into that robust vein of common yearning and assiduously engineer their way through humankind’s rampant library of collective neurosis. Reading a master’s scintillating prose allows our own inchoate thoughts to shape up under the splendid beam of sunlight that they cast onto pages bearing their soul’s freshly minted words. Their astutely crafted pages conveying everlasting imagery immunizes their work from the harshness of time’s relentless march forward.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A writer toils to combat the insufficiency plaguing his or her life. Every writer seeks to ward off the corrosive obliteration wrought by the passage of time upon memory by capturing on paper his or her present day thoughts on life. For these intrepid souls, writing not only entails a lifetime of work it also represents their very lifeblood spilled out onto sheets of virgin white paper. Writers’ inkblot of words forms a pictograph for present and future generations to view; their thoughtful elucidations speak to us from the grave. Writers’ words transcend time by creating indelible images that survive wars, famines, epidemics, and censorship. Thanks to great writers, every man, woman, or child can escape the confines of their own cloistered environment and converse with other people of every occupation and lifestyle whose communal heartbeats form the bloodstream of every city. Thanks to literary figures, each reader can peer into the depths of past generations whose eclectic filament forms the ever-evolving equitable eye in humankinds’ collective consciousness, or colloquially what we refer to as humanity.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“An active engagement with written material through reflective thought gained by reading and writing leads to intellectual growth. A person whom fails to read and write will experience mental stagnation. Failure to cultivate ideas by exposing oneself to written material limits a person’s resources to what they see and hear. Passively reviewing external stimuli might lull a person into believing that they are actively thinking and growing. The more external stimuli a person exposes themselves to, the less time that is available for pursing mental, emotional, and spiritual growth.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A person who does not read and never seeks to increase personal knowledge will always remain imprisoned by ignorance and unable to escape a cellblock of drudgery and despair.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Life is another thing and reading a book is another.”
― nitin namdeo

“A good book can either uplift your spirit, expand your knowledge, teach you a good thing, motivate you to do a good deed, leave a good impact for your whole life, widen your horizons, or simply be a good companion in your good days and bad days.”
― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

“Reading is the author's gift from the reader. Writing is the reader's gift from the author.”
― Scott Paulson

“About the author: Sean Michael Norris believes that this book serves as a sort of autobiography. Despite the fact that this story is a fictional product of his imagination, he feels that it represents a true portrait of his experience — that it honestly depicts how a younger, more vulnerable version of himself saw the world. And if he’s right about that, then to read this book is to learn about its author at a deeper level than any list of biographical facts could ever enable you to reach.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“We are inspired by divine power to write.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the most organized methodology of self-education. Reading exposes the mind to a world of ideas heretofore unimaginable and encourages the novice learner to write. Reading is a form a joint mediation and writing represents the product of several authors’ collective and collaborative minds at work.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Writing only to please myself is not self-defeating. Comparable to an apple tree that expends its entire effort attempting to grow and claims no direct interest in the apples that fall from its branches, I hold no interest in harvesting any fruit from the actual work. Akin to the apple tree, I too desire to expand my depth and breadth, by seeking self-actualization and self-realization, using the mentally productive act of writing to branch out from a timbered core. Writing allows me to bud new branches while slithering about at almost an undetectable pace. Reading and writing profoundly influence how a person perceives the ground and the skyline that frames human life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I am no longer content to live in the prison of the self and have begun reading and writing in order to experience a larger version of reality by seeing the world through the eyes of a thousand people.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Words do contain power. They retain the power of the spirit that whispered them—whatever spirit that was. And when they are read, or spoken, or lived out, the power of that spirit is unleashed in the world.”
― AmyLu Riley

“A reader has always multiple views for a thing or situation, and this is the blessing of reading.”
― nitin namdeo

“no academic status is required to write a book, life is unlimited and has no formula, beside school, I can still live and experience many nagging situations of which I learn many different life lessons that I can teach others.”
― Anath Lee Wales

“Generally, you read one time, whereas, a writer writes and rewrites several times to reach your heart and mind rightly.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Buy printed books because you save real thoughts of writers. Content of digital books can be changed easy if it is needed.”
― Ekaterina Yakovina

“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get bedazzled with the cornucopia of stories and poetry that lay snuggled in the plethora of shelves at display. You wouldn't believe it dear readers that I heard a real symphony in my ears at that very moment of this august encounter that happened in November. There was no rain today but the bright and sunny spirit of the day was as magical as any rainy day might have made me feel.

I do not know about the other people in the book shop, but to me that very moment felt as if I was on cloud nine. Proverbially it felt as if I was listening with a mellifluous ecstasy to the magic of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

At that exact moment when I lay my hands or rather I would say I grabbed my hands on the two books that I have been yearning to read since a long time, I guess the entire Universe paused.

Now without having an iota of energy within me to any other further delay in experiencing the magic and in experiencing the mad euphoria that has serenaded my entire being, I take your leave my dearest readers to indulge myself and in the most pleasurable way possible with the words of Franz Kafka and Fyodor Dostoevsky.”
― Avijeet Das

“A writer is an overflowing reader.”
― A. B. Langrial

“What will history’s verdict be about our time?"
~ Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Yearning like a man yearns for fire in cold winter nights, I have given in to a primal need within me to possess a copy of the book 'Kairos.”
― Avijeet Das

“What will history’s verdict be about our time?"
~ Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Yearning like a man yearns for fire on cold winter nights, I have given in to a primal need within me to possess a copy of the book 'Kairos.”
― Avijeet Das

“Schreiben ist wie Leben, und das zu lesen, was ein anderer geschrieben hat, ist, wie ein anderes Leben in seinem Innern zu leben.”
― Erik Axl Sund, Glaskroppar