"In a magazine, one can get -..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
More by Maya Angelou
“Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.”
“I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.”
“We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.”
More on Reading
“It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.”
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
“I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.”
More on Ideas
“The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.”
“No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.”
“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”