Lisa Lucas quotes

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.
-- Lisa Lucas

#Book #Reading #House

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.
-- Lisa Lucas

#Reading #Long #Film

There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.
-- Lisa Lucas

#Sadness #Joy #World

I have always felt that books help me feel less alone in the world. They make our lives bigger - they help us to feel feelings we wouldn't otherwise feel and to understand feelings that we don't have a framework for.
-- Lisa Lucas

#Book #Feelings #World

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.
-- Lisa Lucas

#Book #Reading #Empowering

I believe we should be championing the work of women. I believe we should be championing the work of people who have been marginalized. That's who I am. How can I not believe in that?
-- Lisa Lucas

#Believe #Who I Am #People

I have always championed the concept of administrators of color. My mother worked in advertising, and growing up, I saw my mother's community of women working behind the scenes. I had the opportunity from a young age to know that I could do this work.
-- Lisa Lucas

#Mother #Growing Up #Opportunity

Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.