#read

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read. ↗

— Wendell H. Ford

#i #longer #personally #read #seen

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#goodness #make #only #readable #sense

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#during #famine #person #steals #thief

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. ↗

— Richard Hughes

#barbarity #bit #humanity #into #novels

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#already #colony #far #new #new south wales

A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#change

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#am #boxer #cowboy #done #elf

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#ask #available #bread #daily #daily bread

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents. ↗

— Sven Birkerts

#reading-habits #age

If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair. ↗

— John Langdon

#around #behind #chair #climb #could