"Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work."

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Source : Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.157, Shaw Books

Leland Ryken

#Appreciation Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise; Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies; And feel, who have laid our groping hands away; And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.”
“I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.”
“Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope”

Source : David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.125, Penguin
“Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable. Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered. Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to anotherâ€™s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.”
“I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.”
“My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.”
“My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.”
“Everybody has got good and evil in them. I'd like to be 100% evil, but I can't.”

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