"When you find a writer who really..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.
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More on Reading
“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
“When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.”
“I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.”
More on Learning
“The more I learn, the less I realize I know.”
“I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.”
“To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.”