#read

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away. ↗

— Mary Grandpre

#away #book #essence #get #giving

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#because #blinds #burn #fact #interesting

Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him. ↗

— John Grisham

#every #every time #go #him #i

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#better #better person #child #entertained #fiction

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time. ↗

— David Heyman

#books #fortunate #happened #i #i love

Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. ↗

— Eric Holder

#appear #bin #corpse #courtroom #deal

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#am #die #i #i am #may

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#every man #exists #full #himself #his

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#i #i do #i write #mind #reader

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ↗

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#built #city #everyone #hopes #like