“ Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. ”
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“ He, who had once been the declared optimist, had not once expressed hope. Now it was she who was offering it to him. And it might be false hope ”
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“ It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ... ”
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“ Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
“ It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ... ”
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“ Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole. ”
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“ It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. ”
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“ Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. ”
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“ Both reading and writing are experienceslifelong in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination. ”
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“ Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratchedover pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid? ”
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“ For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out. ”
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“ I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to. ”
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“ Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost. ”
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“ What occupied his full mind was time itself; time passing: he was concentrating ”
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“ It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ... ”
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“ It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ... ”
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“ I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. ”
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“ I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. ”
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“ I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to. ”
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“ Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery…brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to. ”
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“ Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame. ”
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“ Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. ”
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“ Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again. ”
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“ The habit of love cuts through confusion and stumbles or contrives its way out of difficulty, it remembers the way even when it forgets, for a dumfounded moment, its reason for being. The path is the thing that matters. ”
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“ The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation. ”
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“ The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation. ”
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