#read

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#baby #been #born #business #business school

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#already #aspect #based #being #characteristic

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#dogs #every #every night #go #home

People have already dirtied my name too much. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#much #name #people #too #too much

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#found #hopeful #inevitable #me #ready

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#just #like #love #made #new

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. ↗

— John Barrymore

#free verse #i #modern #read #set

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? ↗

— John Barton

#any #easily #expect #fast #grasped

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that. You need a language in this world. People want words, they want to hear their situation in language, and find a way to talk about it. It allows you to find a language to talk about your own pain. If you give kids a language, they can use it. I think that’s what these educators fear. If you really educate these kids, they aren’t going to punch you in the face, they are going to challenge you with your own language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#literacy #online-interview #power-of-reading #reading #death

Reading should be a repeat performance. ↗

— John Barton

#reading #repeat #should