"Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest."

-- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.”
“There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.”
“I hope my music can minister to others and bring their hearts closer to God. It has been a different journey of faith and obedience and I am proud to give my time, treasure and talent to the Almighty.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“I've served my country.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.'”

Source : 1612 The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.
“Great ideas originate in the muscles.”
“Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.”
“Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

You may also like:

A.J. Cronin
MD
Apuleius
Prose writer
Dana Hill
Actress
Hans Fallada
Writer
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Journalist
Maxwell Perkins
Editor
Zora Neale Hurston
Anthropologist
Howard Spring
Author
John Lee Mahin
Screenwriter