"Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it."

Isabel Allende
Kommentare 0
Noch keine Kommentare

Sei der Erste, der seine Gedanken teilt!

Bitte logge dich ein, um mitzudiskutieren.

Das könnte dir auch gefallen

"If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own."
Marjorie Garber
"Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it."
Francis Collins
"Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse."
Bill Watterson
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
Ernest Hemingway
"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
Frank Herbert
"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
"Asking the right question makes all the difference to your outcome."
Liz Hester
"If it's fiction, then it better be true."
Sherman Alexie
"To become truly human,one has to try an release oneself from the shackles of race,religion and nationality.The quantum of humanism one acquires is inevitably filtered when one limits oneself.'-Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad(Kant Lecture,20090)."
Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad
"A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn."
Eli Pariser
"A Lie is something like the truth, but the truth is not like a Lie."
Dan Raper
"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."
Henry David Thoreau
"I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to."
Jewel
"Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."
Umberto Eco