#read

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines? ↗

— Walter Matthau

#book #did #finished #just #porcupines

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us. ↗

— Novalis

#novels #reading #life

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. ↗

— David McCullough

#before #british #chair #had #i

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

#lot #never #poetry #read #say

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. ↗

— Mack McLarty

#house #italian #machiavelli #needs #original

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#discovering #feel #ideas #just #like

I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#away #because #big #big thing #close

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#gone with the wind #i #knowing #level #not knowing

Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it. ↗

— Carmen Miranda

#faint #hollywood #i #i am #i love

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#different #first #more #performance #poetry