William Wilhelmi finds new artistic ideas by traveling and reading books.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

it's in thinking critically and applying the ideas that you get from reading that... really make it valuable.

学习文学能锻炼我们的批判性思维，我们还能将文学中体现的思想应用到现实生活中。这才是文学的价值所在。

文学是灵魂的方式 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

After all, a good conversation required both wide reading and original ideas.

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To the chagrin of many reading this post, ideas in and of themselves are nothing more than unrefined, random thoughts.

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Instead of deriding the eBook as a profit-killer, why not unite our old ideas of reading alone in quiet rooms with the vast potential created by new technology?

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