Introduction
Celebrities always maintain a certain degree of authority in today's society, and their views on the world are often the most profound and true. A large part of this is reflected in their "famous quotes". In order to help everyone have a deeper understanding of reading, we specially created this webpage to record famous quotes about reading.
7 Famous Reading Famous Readings in Ancient China
It is the time for men to study at the third watch of the night and the fifth watch of the rooster. Black-haired people don't know how to study diligently early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing
If you are crazy by nature, your ambition will be condensed: Therefore, a bookworm must be good at writing, and an art crazy must have good skills. ——Those who are in a state of decline without success are those who claim to be not crazy. ——Pu Songling's "A Bao"
Books are as rich as the sea, and they can be found in all department stores. People's energy cannot be absorbed at the same time, but they can only get what they want. Therefore, I hope that scholars will seek it one at a time. ——Su Shi's "A Brief Story of Dongpo's Collected Works"
When reading text, you must read it in large paragraphs, keep your spirit up, your muscles and bones upright, and don't be sleepy, as if there is a sword behind you. It is necessary to penetrate a paragraph. If you hit the beginning, the tail should be the same, and if you hit the tail, the head should be the beginning. Don't press the book and you will be there, and cover the book and forget it. ——Zhu Xi's "Complete Collection of Zhuzi's Language"
There are three ways to read, namely, the heart, the eyes, and the mouth. If the mind is not here, the eyes will not be able to read carefully. The mind will not be focused, but it will only read rambles. It will never be memorized, and it will not last long. Among the three arrivals, the heart is the most urgent. Once the heart has arrived, won’t the eyes and mouth not care? ——Zhu Xi's "Xun Xue Zhai Gui"
Study is more valuable than erudition. … It is better to know ten things but not reach the ground than to know one thing but reach the ground. ——Dai Zhen's "Chronicle of Mr. Dai Dongyuan"
It is most unhelpful to rely on reciting what you have read. ——Zheng Banqiao
Famous quotes about reading in Gorky's "Gorky on Youth"
Love books, they will make your life easier, they will help you understand the complexity in a friendly way thoughts, feelings and time; it will teach you to respect others and yourself; it inspires wisdom and soul with love for the world and love for mankind. P.251
Love books, they are the source of knowledge! Only knowledge is useful, and only it can make us spiritually strong, loyal and rational people, able to truly love mankind, respect human labor, and sincerely appreciate the products of mankind's uninterrupted great labor. of wonderful fruits. P.251
I feel that when books tell me about characters, feelings, thoughts and attitudes that I have never heard of or seen before, it seems that every book opens a window in front of me, allowing me to See an incredible new world. P.243
Each book is a small ladder. Every time I climb a step, I am more separated from the beast and ascended to the level of human beings, closer to the concept of a better life, and I love this book even more. P.249
Reading, this ordinary process that we take for granted, is actually a process of combining the human soul with the great wisdom of all nations, ancient and modern. P.250
3 Western Famous Quotations
When I read books about topics that I don’t understand, the method I use is to first seek superficial insights into the topic. Skim many pages and chapters first, and then start over again from the beginning in order to acquire sophisticated knowledge. I know the beginning of the book just as it ends. This is the only correct way I can introduce to you. ——Di Cigen: "The Logic of Dialectics"
What matters is not the quantity of knowledge, but the quality of knowledge. Some people know a lot, but they don't know the most useful things. ——Tolstoy
Find something in the books you read that can lead you to the depths, and throw away everything else, that is, throw away the overburdened mind and the things that will make you Everything that lures you away from the point. ——Einstein
3 Modern Chinese Quotations
A man who is omnipotent is really capable of nothing, and an expert who is expert in everything is really expert in nothing... — —Tao Fen's "Collected Works of Tao Fen"
Intensify your study, grasp the center, and prefer to be precise rather than miscellaneous, and prefer to be specialized rather than numerous. ——Zhou Enlai, "Selected Works of Zhou Enlai"
Reading is like mining, "mining for gold in the sand."
Zhao Shuli
Writing is not with white hair but with knowledge; writing is like a spring silkworm spinning silk, with painstaking efforts.
In general, a writer's style is an accurate indicator of his inner life.
A writer's style should be an accurate sign of his inner life. If a person wants to write in a clear style, he must first understand it in his heart; if he wants to write in a majestic style, he must first have a majestic personality.
——Goethe
If you want to write (and only saints know why you write), you must have knowledge, art and magic - knowledge of the music of words, without pretense The art, and the magic of loving your readers.
——Ji Boluan
Writing for bread will soon suffocate my genius and destroy my talent.
Nothing strong or great can come from a profit-seeking pen.
Need and greed may make me write faster, but they cannot make me write better.
——Rousseau
A story is like a tree trunk, and its details grow more and more on it, just like fungi multiplying on a tree trunk.
Strive to discover the dilutable essence of human character.
I was swept up - by a wave, / which was as wide as the waves of the sea! / There is a permanent loneliness in my heart, / It is beyond sorrow, beyond joy... / I can hardly understand myself: / I own the whole world!
No matter how enthusiastically you play the old tunes, there is always something like a student's exercise book.
Even if it is stupid, it must be your own! It is most important to have your own breath, your own inherent breath!
——Turgenev
Even if the people perish and the earth is destroyed, we must never stop praising beautiful things.
There are often times like this, when you cannot express the full depth of all the despicableness of a generation, then you cannot lead society and the entire generation to beauty.
I would rather die of hunger than publish undifferentiated, unthinking works. Don’t blame me...
——Gogol
Now I have to think hard about any small thing, almost as much as I think about big things, and maybe even more hard work.
Observe life through the smiles that people can see and the tears that people can’t see or know!
A writer should always have a pen and paper by his side, and he must write down the things that surprise him. From such sketches, the painter creates the painting, and the writer creates the scenes in the work; everything should be taken from life and not made up of useless fantasies.
Writing can be inspired only when you are in a good mood and with a noble compassion.
A writer should never stop writing just like a painter should never stop painting. No matter what he writes, he must write every day. What is important is that his hands learn to obey his thoughts completely.
——Gogol
People do not write because they are worried about death, but because they worry about leaving no trace after death.
——Stefan Helmling
Writing is not my business. It's like I have a boil. Once the boil is ready, I have to squeeze out the pus.
——Graham Green
I believe that the real reason for writing is not in the claims of becoming a writer, but in the dreams of one's youth.
——Lian Boyd
I write because I have an impression or a feeling that the world God created in six days was imperfect. The seventh day was his day off, leaving him no time to complete his full work. I realized that the world is too big, life is too short, and there is not enough happiness.
I write to perfect the world and to complete the work of creation. In my works, there are my dreams and views on the world. My country is not that famous and there are not many important people to write about yet. However, if your father and my mother get married, we can have celebrities and ambitions here. This is the happiness I pursue.
——Anthony Marner
I do not engage in writing to express myself and be in the limelight, but because I feel that language is very important. Words can sum up the entire world. In fact, people are using language to build an ideal world. Heaven is connected with language; hell is its dregs. When I was a child, in order to control my own destiny and become a strong person, I longed to write and become a Hemingway-style writer.
——Michael Hull
I write because I want to express in words the silent pain deep in my heart.
——Bai Xianyong
I write to create the shelter I need;
I write because the wonder and power of writing are far stronger than me ;
I write because I believe that fallacy, depravity and injustice should not be justified;
I write to live;
I write to To exist;
I write because I write.
——Virgilio Versella
I write to make others love me, to love what I think I should love, and not to forget the important things in the world - friendship, love , wisdom and art. Writing is the death of immortality.
——Sylvia Ocampo
Chaos, suffering and death are everywhere around me. Based on this, I write as a search for order in life. Make life better.
——Tony Murray
I write to make my friends love me more.
——Gabriel García Márquez
Uniformity equals destruction.
Balzac is so great! His characters are masterpieces of cosmic intelligence! It is not the spirit of a certain era but the result of thousands of years of struggle brewing in the human soul.
——Dostoyevsky
New ideas create new techniques, just as flowing water creates rivers.
——Bernard Shaw
If you want me to be a sweet writer, I will never do it. Likewise, if you want me to make empty words and write articles without any thought or purpose, , I will definitely not do it.
We must go all out to write the lives of the characters, and vividly write their inner feelings, so that the characters can do what they should do according to their own personalities, that is, naturally from the character's personality and environment It's logical and the ending is made.
You put yourself in the shoes of the characters you are describing, and describe their inner feelings through images; the characters themselves will do what needs to be done according to their personalities, that is, from the character's personality The outcome derived from the situation will come and appear naturally.
Simplicity is the main condition for moral beauty. In order to make readers sympathize with the protagonist, they must be able to see that they have so many shortcomings in the protagonist, as well as so many advantages. Advantages are possible, but shortcomings are inevitable...
A writer must use a knife when working, not to apply paint but to carve out outlines.
If I were the Tsar, I would issue a decree: If a writer uses words that I do not understand the meaning of, I will deprive him of the right to write and give him a hundred big boards.
——Tolstoy
To write, you need a quiet mind.
——Zweig
Never pursue writing better than others in terms of form.
It doesn't matter if your writing is worse than others, what matters is that you write according to your own characteristics.
It is a very clumsy way to write a long novel from the beginning. It is precisely because of this that a lot of language garbage is produced in our country. Learning to write should start with short stories. Almost all the most outstanding writers in Western Europe and our country do this, because short stories use concise words, the materials are easy to arrange reasonably, the plot is clear, and the theme is clear.
The greatest wisdom lies in the simplicity of words. Proverbs and folk songs are always brief, but the wisdom and emotion contained in them are enough to write an entire book.
——Gorky
The profession of writing is asking for trouble and suffering, the extent of which is beyond your imagination.
When the writer does not express the villain with due caution, the reader will feel that it is not the character that they dislike but the entire story.
——Dickens
Be a pleasure to read by being unpretentious and truthful.
As soon as you introduce politics into a literary work, the feeling of abomination immediately appears.
Excessive pursuit of elegant writing will eventually attract both admiration and boredom.
——Stendhal
The mystery of creation is like the darkness at night - it is great. But the phantom of knowledge is no more than the morning mist.
——Tagore
Writing "art for art's sake" is more advantageous than writing for despicable metal.
What should be expressed is not the existing life, nor the life that should be had, but the ideal life.
If you don’t write, how do you know you have no talent? Without hard work, even talent cannot be discovered. Since you have chosen a job, then do it with a determined purpose and let others make the judgment.
The road of writing is full of thorns, nails, nettles from beginning to end...·...
The earth is a bad place for art. The world is vast and rich, but writers have no place here. The writer is an eternal orphan, an exile, a scapegoat, a helpless child. …I divide humanity into two parts: writers and envious people. The first group of people write, but the second group of people are extremely jealous and try every possible means to cause trouble with the first group of people.
A person is exhausted, mentally exhausted, and depressed in his heart, but I’m sorry: you have to sit down and write! This is called life? : 1. The writer is obviously in a melancholy mood, but has to make readers laugh, or is obviously in high spirits, but has to shed tears as ordered by the editorial board. Why has no one described this painful conflict in his heart so far?
To write for the theater, you must love this career. Without this love, you will not be able to write anything good.
You must write what you see and feel, and you must write it truly and sincerely.
I only write things based on my memories. I have never written anything directly from outside sources. I have to let my memory filter out the subject matter, so that only important or typical things remain in my memory like a filter.
Simplicity is the sister of talent.
The skill of writing is not actually the skill of writing, but... the skill of deleting poorly written parts.
For a writer, writing too little is as harmful as a doctor's lack of opportunity to diagnose his illness.
——Chekhov
It is unhealthy for an artist to keep his eyes on victory when writing. It is impossible to avoid victory or pursue victory. As long as you concentrate on fighting, you will win. If he is obsessed with winning. Superficial victory will follow! Being obsessed with victory will distract from his creative ideas. A young writer should build his life so that no matter what occupation, he should consciously do it well, so that he can maintain his creative freedom.
He could devote only one hour a day to writing, a full hour, and that hour was more valuable to art than the days of a well-paid semi-servant.
Inner dreams are woven with words. However, in order for others to understand themselves and for themselves to understand themselves, they have to use words...
In our era, science has become art, and it is the greatest of all arts; in this era, Poetry without truth is the most vain and dying art. But who can define poetry and truth? Every honest poet is true. Only a mediocre poet is hypocritical because he betrays himself.
To express a storm, you don’t have to depict an ocean with turbulent waves. Overly accurate details are less important, and more important is the overall truth... What the author seeks here is more moral truth than truth in details.
The artificial extravagance of literary syllables and the misty smoke of word chewing will devour the reader's wisdom and understanding.
——Romain Rolland
What is the special class of family and wealth compared with the special class of writing talent? No amount of wealth can buy the ideological influence that deeply penetrates the hearts of the people. No power or rule can withstand the power of printing cannonballs to destroy everything.
Fairy tales are not real, but they have profound meanings!
A useful lesson for young people.
Words will inspire your mind.
No writer has the talent to reveal the vulgarity of life so clearly, and to draw out the vulgarity of vulgar characters so effectively.
Drawing the vulgarity of vulgar characters makes the small things missed in the eyes huge. The earth shines in everyone's eyes.
The roads in winter are flat and light, like boring verses in fashionable songs.
——Pushkin
Writers should be like God in the universe, existing everywhere and visible nowhere.
For what you want to express, you should observe it carefully for a long time, so that you can discover the characteristics that others have not discovered or written about.
——Flaubert
There are no two grains of sand, two flies, two hands or two noses in the world that are absolutely the same. Therefore, writers must have their own characteristics when creating each character, and they must not be the same.
——Maupassant
The secret of all masterpieces lies in this: the theme is consistent with the author's temperament.
Writing a book is different from raising a son, but it is like building a pyramid. You need to make a plan in advance, and then spend brainpower, time and sweat to pile up the stones one by one.
Form and thought are like body and soul; it seems to me a whole, indivisible, and I know not what the one would become without the other.
In writing, it is like in music: the most beautiful and precious thing is the purity of sound.
If a person loves writing, he is in danger of not being able to see what he writes!
No matter what a writer wants to describe, there is only one noun for him to use, a verb to make the object vivid, and an adjective to make the nature of the object clear. Therefore, you have to search carefully until you find that noun, that verb, and that adjective.
Extraordinary passion can produce outstanding works.
——Flaubert
He can manipulate words freely and make them tell everything, even things that are generally difficult to express, and are full of unfinished meaning and mystery. This is more difficult than using some old dead words to express your intention.
Only after I read Shakespeare's plays did I realize the beauty of writing, and how one can use words to describe various things in the world and make them come to life.
The ingenuity of a work's layout does not lie in its excitement or cuteness, nor in its fascinating beginning or thrilling ending, but in the ingenuity of the believable little things that express the clear meaning of the work. combination.
——Maupassant
The real thing is stranger than the fictional story; but this is because the fictional story must conform to the possibility, while the real thing does not have to take into account this.
A book will usually make you bored in the middle and you will not want to write any more. It takes a while to rest before energy and interest can be rekindled. It will take some time before the lost raw materials can be replenished.
——Mark Twain
Increasing the number of readers increases the value of books.
Time will punish or do justice to the work. Temporary success is only the business of booksellers.
A writer who cares about posterity will constantly purify his grammar without abandoning the features that express the special personality of his spirit. Coining new words indiscriminately is just a poor way to remedy one's own imbecility. Wrong language can never express an idea, and style is like crystal, the purer it is, the brighter it becomes.
——Hugo
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