#read

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#american #culture #grew #indians #know

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#admire #author #note #piece #read

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#exercise #i #newspaper #rather #read

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#like #myself #please #read #started

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#make #out #penicillin #something #sure

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#bread #down #find #hard #how

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#aware #better #conveyed #even #fiction

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. ↗

— Karen Allen

#anything #bad #been #crazy #does

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. ↗

— Woody Allen

#i #involves #minutes #peace #read