"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."

--

Source : William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

William Styron

#Life Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.”
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
“We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.”

Source : Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons
“I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.”
“Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.”

Source : Nikki Turner (2010). “Natural Born Hustler”, p.109, One World
“I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.”
“On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.”
“The most difficult thing for people to do is hear their own soul.”

You may also like:

Alan J. Pakula
Film director
John Steinbeck
Author
John Updike
Novelist
Joseph Heller
Novelist
Kay Redfield Jamison
Psychologist
Kingsley Amis
Novelist
Nat Turner
Norman Mailer
Novelist
William Faulkner
Writer