#read

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#memories #old-age #reading #age

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#been #case #could #create #every

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#angry #asking #awards #baseball #baseball players

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines? ↗

— Walter Matthau

#book #did #finished #just #porcupines

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work! ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#aspects #choose #come #confront #does

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#books #getting #i #i am #into

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something. ↗

— Paul Mazursky

#because #convinced #definite #direct #else

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#being #flat #friend #getting #great

I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#i #never #read #signed #them

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#closes #comfort #happens #i #me