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“Ministers are living books, and books are dead ministers; and yet though dead, they speak. When you cannot hear the one, you may read the other.”

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“આત્મ-સુધારની જાણ એમને જ કરવાની હોય, જેઓ આપણા માટે મહત્વના હોય. આપણી વ્યક્તિગત ઉન્નતિના દર્શન અમૂક ખાસ લોકો જ કરી શકે. આપણી પ્રગતિ, પરિપક્વતા અને પરિવર્તન વિશે દરેકને જાણ કરવી નિરર્થક છે.”

“Thinking about how ducks converse using only one word, quack, has me thinking about the meaning of communication. If I wrote a dictionary, would you read it? What if I made it flow like a Nicholas Sparks romance novel?”

“...we receive so much from other writers when they show us how it’s done. When they position a character’s heart directly on the page for us, when they’re inventive in form or structure, or emotionally true in a way that feels radical in its familiarity. Or when their sentences are so crisp as to be nearly audible, like a piece of paper torn in two—all of this shows us how to do it ourselves, how it’s possible, but also it emboldens us, releases us from our fears about our own work. An encouragement by example. We learn from them, but also, they tell us we can. Without even knowing it. Enter here. Start here. Begin now. This is why it’s always important to be reading. This is why we must always chew on the words of others. It’s nutrition. Eat your dinner.”