Why do I always possess a pencil while reading?
The answer is simple: it is a handy tool to make notes and mark inspiring quotations. I was able to write some of my previous blog posts because a few years ago, I read some moving Dostoyevski’s, Lem’s, Mann’s, or Seneca’s books. The Artworks of these writers were genuinely inspiring. The most interesting is the fact that since these times I always, whenever I find some moving thought of the writer, I marked quotations with the pencil. After highlighting the text, I write the number of the page on the end page.
When I started to do this, I was not able to say why I do that.
I was thinking that maybe someday, in the future, I will benefit from doing this. And you know what? I was right. Now, when I sometimes have a lack of inspirations (hopefully, more and more rarely), and I do not know what to write in my post, I reach for my good old books. In general, as I wrote before in my previous posts, books are genuinely inspiring. It is one, the unimaginable significant source of inspiration.
We can analyze, transform, develop, or argue with the statements written by other authors.
There is also another advantage of marking deep thoughts written in the texts. In general, this activity saves me time. After reading the book, I do not have to flick through all the content to re-find the inspirational parts of the artwork. I already have it. Enchanted pencil highlighted it for me before.
Quotes written by classic and inspirational writers can be a starting point for us to create our unique thoughts, comments regarding many aspects of our lives (from religion, culture, science to even telling your own stories).
I am proud that I started to mark with the pencil all interesting me quotations ~7 years ago. The best thing is that a lot of quotes are still waiting to be interpreted in my specific way. Such authors like Chekhov, Bukowski, Hesse, or Celine are still waiting to be revealed on my blog.
I hope that I will have enough time to use them.
