#read

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. ↗

— E. L. Konigsburg

#allow #already #also #around #begin

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#battery #beautiful #building #cheap #contradictory

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#better #choices #getting #getting better #i

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#each #heart #her #his #mind

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#carrie #come #him #hope #i

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#after #book #deal #first #i

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#courage #damn #damn fool #desire #fool

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#character #empathetic #genre #get #involvement

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#child #learn #mentally #never #physically

And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#almost #been #before #games #go