I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.
Books are not distractions. Rather, they are, and have been, the most profound and accurate mirrors man has ever crafted.
She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped tryi...
Reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s...
Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our...
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!
Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.
Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shap...
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.
Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as deep and broad as you can. In workshops, writers are often told to read wha...
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
The best boyfriends are the ones in books.
The more that you read, the more that you know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go
To be able to influence Tanzanian literature and African literature, and sell our books in Tanzania as well as in our continent, we need to be committed to what we do. And what we do is writing. Write...
Writers possess magic. It's in their w