#read

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. ↗

— Duane Michals

#face #great #i #i think #know

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

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe. ↗

— Stacey T. Hunt

#author #awesome #believe #books #dare

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

Invisible Boy was fun. Everybody else's character, they knew where they were at already as a superhero. But invisible boy's character, you kind of grow up with him within the movie. ↗

— Kel Mitchell

#boy #character #else #everybody #fun

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out. ↗

— Rick Moody

#awards #been #books #came #i

There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#churches #enough #needs #salvation #still

I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty... ↗

— Edward Gorey

#aging #death #old-age #reading #age