Common Reading Experience

Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:

“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

“There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading ... may be given without first getting the author’s permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

“If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)