#read

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#cliches #devices #feel #i #like

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ↗

— Arnold Lobel

#reading #love

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ↗

— Voltaire

#dancing #reading #dance

The world was hers for the reading. ↗

— Betty Smith

#feminist #reading #world

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ↗

— Mark Twain

#be careful #books #careful #die #health

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#reading #something #worth #worth reading #write

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. ↗

— Mary Archer

#balance sheets #extraordinary #fact #fascinating #make

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#back #before #give #hope #lincoln

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script. ↗

— JoBeth Williams

#before #concerned #doing #i #myself

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#books #carry #fire #hand #hold