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“Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.”

Emotion Television Pages Reflection Invites Printed

Author:Bill Moyers

“I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.”

“No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.”

Want Two Book Interest Secret Minutes Fields Expression Pages Reflection Romantic Depth Theatre Intimate Stalking Hopeless Romantic Literary Love Depth Of Field

Book:Vintage Ondaatje

Source: Vintage Ondaatje

“I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.”

World Want Writing Next Space Honor Thousand Ten Findings Pages Reflection Notes Bottom Ashamed Journal

Book:Cosmopolis: A Novel

Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel

“Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!”

“What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives”

People Trying Humans Interest Human Beings Pages Ordinary Reflection Ordinary People

Author:Tracy Kidder

“When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.”

Knows Pages Reflection Madness Mirrors Insanity Blank Evident Shattered Differentiate Blank Pages

Author:Dave Matthews