Read every day and learn from what you read.
– Octavia E Butler
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- He rubbed his head again. ‘Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer. – Octavia E Butler
- Consider–We are bornNot with purpose,But with potential. – Octavia E Butler
- People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn’t bother me. It’s other people doing the calling that bothers me. – Octavia E Butler
- Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell? – Octavia E Butler
- I began writing about power because I had so little. – Octavia E Butler
- Power came the way a child came — with agony. – Octavia E Butler
- Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person’s resolve. – Octavia E Butler
- Everything is so soft here,’ he said, ‘so easy…’ ‘I know – Octavia E Butler
- If you work hard enough at something that doesn’t matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do. – Octavia E Butler
- BewareAt war Or at peace,More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease – Octavia E Butler
- There is no endTo what a living worldWill demand of you. – Octavia E Butler
- I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm. – Octavia E Butler
- Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain. – Octavia E Butler
- I’m Valerie Rye,’ she said, savoring the words. ‘It’s all right for you to talk to me. – Octavia E Butler
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- Wisdom from Top Butler: Guard yourself at all times but don’t let anyone lead you to live a guarded life that is all. – Donavan Nelson Butler
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. – Samuel Butler
- The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler
- You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I’m supposed to take when I one day leave this house. – Eve Ensler
- He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all. – Laini Taylor
- Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more. – Lisa Bloom
- Read, re-read! Every word you read is a food for thy soul! – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. – SA Tawks
- Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
- We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
- Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser
- Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read. – Christian Bauman
- I don’t know what’s more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn. – Patricia Goldbach
- Live to read, read to learn. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn. – Rico Dasheem
- I learn to trust someone I love..I learn to deal with heartbreak..I learn to forgive him who hurts.I never stop learning in this life. – Toba Beta
- By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I’ll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light. – Dean Koontz
- You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying. – Samer Chidiac
- Learn to be alone. Learn to love being alone. Learn you as you’re alone with yourself. – Erica Alex
- Great men learn from their weaknesses,and learn to use their strengths.Ordinary men learn nothing from their weaknesses,and underuse their strengths. – Matshona Dhliwayo