#read

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#before #began #fiction #i #reading

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#just #oldest #only #out #read

I wear Spanx to smooth things out. I read that Jessica Alba wears them and if she wears them, then so should I. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#jessica #out #read #she #should

I've already started saying that I'm 30 when I'm still 29. That way, I'm already there. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#i #saying #started #still #way

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. ↗

— George Byron

#like #read #romances #seen #those

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#publishers #rush #translators #tread #where

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#being #comes #duty #fancy #good

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#classic #literature #modern #newest #oldest

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

Attraction is explained as a function of reincarnation: people who knew each other in past lives are helpless in the face of an emotion which has passed, untouched, through bodily death. Who wouldn’t be? ↗

— Brenda Walker

#reading-by-moonlight #death