#read

Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely? ↗

— Jackie Collins

#five #hours #minutes #nicely #ready

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#demand #made #many #read #reason

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#grasped #journalism #literature #once #read

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#being #days #different #different things #done

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#live #read

Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..! ↗

— Sujit Lalwani

#inspirational-quotes #life #reading #success #writing

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#around #differently #dinner #down #each

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#business #confidence #constitute #consumer #consumer confidence

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#counter #destruction #efforts #important #initiative

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. ↗

— P. L. Travers

#book #half #his #learns #only