#read

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#already #dead #fear #life #love is

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy. ↗

— George William Russell

#easier #forgive #forgive me #found #give me

I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head. ↗

— Graham Russell

#characters #couple #days #everything #fall

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship. ↗

— Keri Russell

#hold #just #love #people #ready

I get and read an enormous number of first novels. ↗

— Richard Russo

#first #get #i #novels #number

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#career #done #good #good time #had

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired. ↗

— Richard Russo

#admired #body #book #crew #dad

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. ↗

— Richard Russo

#does #faith #find #happens #how

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child. ↗

— Goh Chok Tong

#child #enjoyed #i #reading #wanted

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. ↗

— William Safire

#deal #editing #find #great #great deal