#read

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done. ↗

— William Devane

#child #children #doing #done #good

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. ↗

— John Dewey

#choice #continuous #formation #ready-made #self

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. ↗

— Anita Diament

#already #any #before #book #came

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible. ↗

— Anita Diament

#book #other #person #reader #room

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#each #ears #fields #individual #just

I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#back #book #channel #every #front

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. ↗

— Noel Coward

#caviar #glorious #like #never #ought

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#better #each #everybody #much #other

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber. ↗

— Frank Crane

#dread #fiber #gives #manhood #most

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. ↗

— Frank Crane

#reading #sort #spend #stuff #time