#read

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #books #break #call #chapters

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#because #becoming #date #early #either

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#believe #cambridge #couple #fiction #first

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#head #reading #stories #ten

I don't very often read novels. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#novels #often #read #very

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#breadth #claims #commitment #contract #declaration

I don't read. I don't like to read 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. It's not my style. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#harry #harry potter #i #like #potter

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#anymore #calmed #down #hook #i

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#experience #nature #novel #private #reading

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there. ↗