"The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book."

-- George Steiner

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Hands Quotes

“All of us blossom when we feel loved and wither when we do not feel loved.”
“A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule”
“It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.”

Source : "Dani Shapiro: Stop Asking for Permission". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. September 27, 2013.
“If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.”

Source : Spider Robinson (1996). “Deathkiller”, Baen Books
“I love learning. I tend to stop doing things once I get good at them, and to try something else I'm not as good at, leaving a bunch of fans going, "But he was really good at that. Why isn't he still doing it?"”
“For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that â€” situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy â€” Jamaica has no reason to be poor,”
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
“I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.”

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