#read

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#between #chess #dec #enough #i

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#entertained #obviously #order #people #read

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#aids #cancer #cured #disease #dreaded

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment. ↗

— Jack Vance

#completely #environment #immersed #reader #someone

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. ↗

— Jack Vance

#books #enormous #i #influence #instance

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do. ↗

— Jack Vance

#anytime #books #frequently #i #i can

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. ↗

— Jack Vance

#fiction #i #other #read #science

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#awful thing #came #end #heartbreaking #i

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#idleness #labor #writing #yet

The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#dedicated #defend #freedoms #life #men