#read

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#else #entertain #got #one thing #put

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#arms #eddie #enjoying #everything #good

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#addicted #addictive #already #cause #easy

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#gives #i #kiss #reader #want

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#books #could #good #matter #other

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#learn #read #spent #time #trying

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#bible #get #god #i #learn

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#everyone #somebody #truth #truth is

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#first #i #novel #read #wanted

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#any #art #attitude #audience #because