#read

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#reading #age

By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and therefore writing—adventure stories. This was before I’d read Isak Dinesen and Mikhail Bulgakov, before Ernest Hemingway and T. Coraghessan Boyle, before I’d read something and really felt it, when writing was still just a compulsion, and my teen-age brain was only bordering on sentience. I filled pages of white space with swashbuckling, rapier-wielding, sidekick-sacrificing, dragon-baiting romance. (from 'High-School Confidential' in the The New Yorker.) ↗

— Téa Obreht

#writing #age

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. ↗

— John Pople

#cover #discarded #found #i #read

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#danny #element #encounters #freudian #heart

I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#cook #cooking #day #exactly #felt

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#come #come and go #constant #defense #die

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. ↗

— John Waters

#reading #life

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. ↗

— J. F. Powers

#blood #body #bread #change #create

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. ↗

— Richard Powers

#economy #eyes #makes #market #market economy

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#both #character #draft #end #every