#read

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#concentration #distract #i #i am #might

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. ↗

— John McCarthy

#being #book #convinced #intellectual #likely

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into. ↗

— John McCarthy

#because #bread #cannot #consequence #fights

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side. ↗

— John McCarthy

#convince #however #rally #rarely #side

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself! ↗

— Paul McCartney

#back #buy #car #chauffeur #could

Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#makes #me #ready #restless #waiting

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music. ↗

— Yanni

#how #learn #me #music #necessary

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. ↗

— John McGahern

#alice #billy #book #called #charming

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. ↗

— John McGahern

#completely #exist #i #i see #i think

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world. ↗

— John McGahern

#between #cannot #difference #each #i