#eve

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#always #aspects #be different #because #being

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#book #complex #concentration #different #different sort

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#book #ever #i #i write #read

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? ↗

— Ella Maillart

#cut #everything #i #i am #instinctively

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. ↗

— Maimonides

#another #capacity #certain #discover #during

I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self. ↗

— Mainbocher

#chic #her #i #inner #inner self

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#called #code #development #embodied #end

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world. ↗

— Daniel Mainwaring

#everything #everything people #guess #hear #i

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast. ↗

— Corey Taylor

#seven-deadly-sins #life

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#inflicted #justice #love #much #pain