#ding

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#deconstruction #influence #understanding #writing #communication

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul. ↗

— Aneta Cruz

#reading #words-of-wisdom #writing #imagination

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read. ↗

— Jincy Willett

#reading #writing-books

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#learn

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#called #cared #children #day #did

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#grown-up #i #liking #parents #peaceful

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now. ↗

— Dave Davies

#compassion #issues #leaders #love #more

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ↗

— Ray Davies

#groups #i #i think #more #songwriting

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#age #book #building #fine #great

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#book #depends #experience #feeds #great