#read

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#adult life #bound #flinching #i #i tried

The Army was my bread and butter. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#bread #butter

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#begun #by the time #came #down #had

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. ↗

— Jules Verne

#reading #being

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. ↗

— Lisa See

#novelists #reading #storytellers #storytelling #writers

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol. ↗

— Pamela Dean

#reading #alcohol

Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves. ↗

— Kelly Link

#reading #scrabble #tea

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#hares #market #read #time #tortoise

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#been #could #entire #entire world #i

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#exactly #found #how #i #just