“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.”
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Moses Hadas 1
American classical philologist 1900–1966Related quotes
“If time is all I have,
I'll waste it all on you.”
"If Time Is All I Have", written by James Bluint and Eg White
Song lyrics, Some Kind of Trouble (2010)
“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Opening remark made by Mattis in an address of 1st Reconnaissance Battalion Marines at Camp Pendleton in September 2002. As quoted by Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (2005), p. 163.
"Introduction" http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/autobio/1.htm
An Autobiographical Novel (1991)
Context: Any writer, reading over the typescript of a book for the last time before sending it off to the publisher, must wonder what all the effort was for. An autobiography is specially in need of justification to its author. It is a work of self-justification which itself needs justifying. Why have I written this book? Why have I written it the way I have? What does it mean to me? What do I hope it will mean to others?
Each human being has at the final core of self a crystal from which the whole manifold of the personality develops, a secret molecular lattice which governs the unfolding of all the structures of the individuality, in time, in space, in memory, in action and contemplation. Asleep there were just these dreams and no others. Awake there were these actions only. Only these deeds came into being.
Source: Commonplace Book (1985), p. 11
Source: Aspects of the Novel