"Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing."

-- Frank Smith

#Education Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.”
“As a typically ambitious player, I did what all others of that ilk do: Everything I could do to gain advantage for my PCs and rise in level as rapidly as possible.”

Source : "What's in a Name?". Dragon Magazine, No. 318, 2004.
“You know how mountains get moved? Everyone who can move a couple, move a couple. Those who can move rocks, move rocks. Those who can move boulders, move boulders. That's how mountains get moved. If every one of us did everything we could, I believe we would be in a different world.”
“By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.”
“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
“Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say.”
“the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.”

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”
“I know I ain't too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.”

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