लेखक की कोई भी पत्नी इस बात को कभी नहीं समझ सकती कि जब उसका पति खिड़की से बाहर ताक रहा होता है, तब भी वह काम कर रहा होता है।
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.
पत्रकारिता की समझ असल में इस बात की समझ है कि क्या महत्वपूर्ण है, क्या जरूरी है, किसमें रंग और जीवन है - और किसमें लोगों की दिलचस्पी है। यही पत्रकारिता है।
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life – what people are interested in. That’s journalism.
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life – what people are interested in. That’s journalism.
ऐसी किताबें खरीदें जिन्हें आपने पहले भी पढ़कर आनंद और लाभ उठाया हो और जिन्हें आप दोबारा पढ़ना चाहें। ऐसी किताबें खरीदें जिनके महत्वपूर्ण अंशों पर आप लाइन खींच सकें और हाशिए पर अपने नोट्स लिख सकें, जिससे आपको यह अहसास हो कि वह किताब पूरी तरह से आपकी अपनी है। जो किताबें आपके सबसे करीब हैं उन्हें अपने पास संभाल कर रखें, यदि संभव हो तो एक-दो किताबों को अपने बिस्तर के पास वाली मेज पर रखें। अपनी पसंदीदा किताबों को छुपाकर न रखें या उन्हें अलमारियों में ताले में बंद करके न रखें। उन्हें कांच के पीछे भी कैद न रखें।
Buy books, then, that you have read with profit and pleasure and hope to read and reread. Buy books that you may underscore passages and write upon the margins, thus assuring yourself that the book is your own. Keep the books that mean the most to you close at hand, one or two, if possible, on a table at your bedside. Do not hide away your favorite books or keep them locked in enclosed shelves. Do not keep them under glass.
Buy books, then, that you have read with profit and pleasure and hope to read and reread. Buy books that you may underscore passages and write upon the margins, thus assuring yourself that the book is your own. Keep the books that mean the most to you close at hand, one or two, if possible, on a table at your bedside. Do not hide away your favorite books or keep them locked in enclosed shelves. Do not keep them under glass.
मेरा स्वभाव ऐसा है कि कुछ भी न पढ़ने से बेहतर मुझे घटिया सामग्री पढ़ना पसंद है।
I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.
I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.
कोई भी किताब, भले ही वह कितनी भी अच्छी क्यों न हो, उसे कभी भी किसी काम या जिम्मेदारी की तरह नहीं पढ़ा जाना चाहिए। यदि आप इस तरह से कोई किताब पढ़ेंगे, तो बहुत संभावना है कि न केवल आपको उससे कुछ हासिल नहीं होगा, बल्कि उस किताब और उसके लेखक के प्रति आपके मन में एक अनावश्यक झुंझलाहट पैदा हो जाएगी।
No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.
No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.
यदि आप कोई किताब खोलते हैं और पाते हैं कि लेखक लंबे, अजीब शब्दों का इस्तेमाल करके या विदेशी वाक्यांशों की झाड़ देकर अपनी विद्वता का प्रभाव जमाने की कोशिश कर रहा है, तो बिना किसी झिझक या हीन भावना के उस किताब को तुरंत बंद कर दें। इसका मतलब यह है कि लेखक को लिखना आया ही नहीं है और शायद कभी आएगा भी नहीं, इसलिए आपको उसकी अयोग्यता का ढिंढोरा पीटने का कोई ठेका नहीं लिया है।
If you open a book and find that the writer is trying to impress you with his knowledge of long, unusual words or by his use of foreign phrases, close the book quickly with no sense of loss or of deficiency or of having missed anything; for the author has not learned how to write and perhaps never will, and there is no need for you to offer yourself as a sounding board for his incompetence.
If you open a book and find that the writer is trying to impress you with his knowledge of long, unusual words or by his use of foreign phrases, close the book quickly with no sense of loss or of deficiency or of having missed anything; for the author has not learned how to write and perhaps never will, and there is no need for you to offer yourself as a sounding board for his incompetence.