{"id":285,"date":"2016-11-28T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/28\/a-few-new-favorite-quotes\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T02:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T02:22:26","slug":"a-few-new-favorite-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/28\/a-few-new-favorite-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few (New) Favorite Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I just fell down a rabbit hole on the internet. \u00a0I was looking up a book for my son on Goodreads. \u00a0An article in The Boston Globe had recommended it for teenage boys and since it was written in the 1940s and I like older books I meandered on over to Goodreads to check it out. \u00a0The book is The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson. I quickly decided my son might like it (Vikings! \u00a0Wars at sea! \u00a0Treasure!) and was ready to move on when I got sucked in by the quote section. \u00a0Now, I don’t have a Goodreads account and I only use it to read reviews every now and then so I have never really paid any attention to this but I randomly punched in Robert Frost and well, that was an hour ago and I now have a selection of quotes I love. \u00a0And, since I seem completely incapable of discovering words I like without sharing them on here, today’s post is a random selection of quotes mostly from books I haven’t even read yet. \u00a0Yes, I will do something about that.<\/p>\n

First up is Robert Frost. \u00a0I only thought of him as a poet but apparently, he wrote about writing as well. \u00a0I liked this.<\/p>\n

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. \u00a0I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. \u00a0Eye readers we call them. \u00a0They get the meaning by glances. \u00a0But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am guilty of occasionally being an eye reader. \u00a0Some books just lend themselves to that; the cozy mystery, the light romance. \u00a0Not that there is anything wrong with these types of books, they just don’t invite you to lay down the book and contemplate the wonders of the language. \u00a0The problem is when we apply the same reading methods to books that do have more to say. \u00a0I sometimes need to make myself slow down and appreciate the way a book is written as well as the story it is telling.<\/p>\n

Next is a quote from E. B. White.<\/p>\n

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. \u00a0A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book you may have your question answered. \u00a0Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\nI think that possibly E. B. White and I could have been friends. \u00a0He also said this.<\/span><\/span>
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Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. \u00a0You have to write up, not down. \u00a0Children are demanding. \u00a0They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth…Children are game for anything. \u00a0I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\nDo you see what I mean? \u00a0We absolutely would have been friends. \u00a0I get so irritated by the idea that children have to be coddled in their book choices. \u00a0Let them read. \u00a0Let them try hard books. \u00a0Let them be overwhelmed. \u00a0Let them not understand. \u00a0Let them rise to the book. \u00a0They will. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
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\nAnd finally, a quote from William Zinsser. \u00a0I read a collection of his essays a few months ago and greatly enjoyed his style. \u00a0<\/span><\/span>
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Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\nYes. \u00a0Yes! \u00a0This exactly. \u00a0This is why I had issues with East of Eden<\/a>.<\/i> \u00a0I felt like I was constantly being told how I should react and how I should feel about the story. \u00a0No. \u00a0Let me feel things on my own. \u00a0<\/span><\/span>William Zinsser wrote a famous writing manual called On Writing Well. \u00a0I will definitely by buying a copy if this is the type of thing he has to say.<\/span>
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\nI used to own a giant compilation of famous quotations. Actually, I could still own it. \u00a0It is probably just lost in the depths of my attic. \u00a0I enjoy flipping through and reading bits and pieces. \u00a0It gives you a taste of different authors and the thought provoking things they said. \u00a0And sometimes that leads you down a rabbit hole that ends in a whole new reading list. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just fell down a rabbit hole on the internet. \u00a0I was looking up a book for my son on Goodreads. \u00a0An article in The Boston Globe had recommended it for teenage boys and since it was written in the 1940s and I like older books I meandered on over to Goodreads to check it out. \u00a0The book is The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson. I quickly decided my son might like it (Vikings! \u00a0Wars at sea! \u00a0Treasure!) and was ready to move on when I got sucked in by the quote section. \u00a0Now, I don’t have a Goodreads account and I only use it to read reviews every now and then so I have never really paid any attention to this but I randomly punched in Robert Frost and well, that was an hour ago and I now have a selection of quotes I love. \u00a0And, since I seem completely incapable of discovering words I like without sharing them on here, today’s post is a random selection of quotes mostly from books I haven’t even read yet. \u00a0Yes, I will do something about that. First up is Robert Frost. \u00a0I only thought of him as a poet but apparently, he wrote about writing as well. \u00a0I liked this. The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. \u00a0I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. \u00a0Eye readers we call them. \u00a0They get the meaning by glances. \u00a0But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work. I am guilty of occasionally being an eye reader. \u00a0Some books just lend themselves to that; the cozy mystery, the light romance. \u00a0Not that there is anything wrong with these types of books, they just don’t invite you to lay down the book and contemplate the wonders of the language. \u00a0The problem is when we apply the same reading methods to books that do have more to say. \u00a0I sometimes need to make myself slow down and appreciate the way a book is written as well as the story it is telling. Next is a quote from E. B. White. A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. \u00a0A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book you may have your question answered. \u00a0Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. I think that possibly E. B. White and I could have been friends. \u00a0He also said this. Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. \u00a0You have to write up, not down. \u00a0Children are demanding. \u00a0They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth…Children are game for anything. \u00a0I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net. \u00a0 Do you see what I mean? \u00a0We absolutely would have been friends. \u00a0I get so irritated by the idea that children have to be coddled in their book choices. \u00a0Let them read. \u00a0Let them try hard books. \u00a0Let them be overwhelmed. \u00a0Let them not understand. \u00a0Let them rise to the book. \u00a0They will. \u00a0\u00a0 And finally, a quote from William Zinsser. \u00a0I read a collection of his essays a few months ago and greatly enjoyed his style. \u00a0 Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving. Yes. \u00a0Yes! \u00a0This exactly. \u00a0This is why I had issues with East of Eden. \u00a0I felt like I was constantly being told how I should react and how I should feel about the story. \u00a0No. \u00a0Let me feel things on my own. \u00a0William Zinsser wrote a famous writing manual called On Writing Well. \u00a0I will definitely by buying a copy if this is the type of thing he has to say. I used to own a giant compilation of famous quotations. Actually, I could still own it. \u00a0It is probably just lost in the depths of my attic. \u00a0I enjoy flipping through and reading bits and pieces. \u00a0It gives you a taste of different authors and the thought provoking things they said. \u00a0And sometimes that leads you down a rabbit hole that ends in a whole new reading list. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quotes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}