“Herb Elliott would remark decades later that Percy Cerutty never read books so much as studied them. All his life he read with a pencil in his hand, making underlines, asterisks, question marks and notes in margins to imprint the content on his memory. On certain subjects of greatest passion, he took to making his own notes in exercise books.”
– Graem Sims, Why Die? The Extraordinary Percy Cerutty, ‘Maker of Champions’
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Yes, yes, yes!
Passion is what drives my reading. Passion to find out more.
What of?
I’m not sure. But I continue in a kind of quest to find out
Reading with a pencil? Yes!
Books are transformed through our selection and annotation. A million people may read the same book, but our annotations make it singularly our own.
Part of reading is questioning the author. Books don’t provide us answers, but allow us to ask better questions of ourselves.
Conversations With Quotations 