#read

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader. ↗

#finds #live #once #private #private world

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#before #began #bookstore #came #composing

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#also #amateur #babe #babe ruth #baseball

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. ↗

— Stephen King

#norms #politeness #reading #society #writing

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. ↗

— Peter Straub

#been #clumsy #copy #could #dozens

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#creating #good #good book #good time #idea

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#end #let us #may #method #our

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#exchange #i #india #invincible #love

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know? ↗