#read

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#common #common sense #desiring #distributed #each

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#centuries #conversation #finest #good #like

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#common #common sense #distributed #fairly #more

Time held no meaning as my mind darted in and out of memories. Past and present collided to create a full-sensory collage out of my life: playing hide-n-seek with my best friends Luke—who always cheated by walking through walls when he was about to be caught—and Lucy; Mr. Caldrin critiquing my sketches and offering ideas to make them more realistic; targets changing faces, blending into the same person, their thoughts rippling through my mind like waves. Through it all, a demon stalked me from the shadows of my memories, never quite showing its face, but crouching, waiting. And then I dreamed.... ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#poetic-prose #change

I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign. ↗

— John Campbell

#campaign #campaigning #i #last #legislate

حينما تترقب خلف ستار الخوف عودتهم ! وحينما تعتقد بأن أعاصير الحياة عصفت بهم كما عصفت بك عند رحيلهم .. وحينما تعتقد بأنهم مازالوا هناك على رصيف الذكرى يقفون ، ينتظرون طيف أقدامك ! يترقبون مجيئك ويعتصرون ألماً على فراقك ..! كما تفعل أنت الآن ، وكما فعلت منذ زمن عندها تكون ياعزيزي أقرب إلى الجنون ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#except #first #i #just #makes

Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do. ↗

— Howard Dean

#done #get #going #governor #i

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#busy #buy #commitment #days #expensive

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#best #books #care #characters #driven