Renewed Insight Quotes

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

You can have a coach for five or six years, and eventually, that coach has so little new to say. So get somebody else to give a different point of view. Somebody will see something I don't see and vice versa. You evolve with your game and your coaches.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

I've been through a heartbreak and seen the business side of the music industry. Now I see things clearer.

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.