#read

There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#already #compelling #get #i #interesting

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#courage #got #had #i #journals

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. ↗

— William James

#act #already #had #quality #want

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#compete #each #few #forms #her

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#book #center #character #imagine #literary

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#effort

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind tham lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be. ↗

— Francis Spufford

#life

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#even #everything #glamour #glitz #inside

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra. ↗

— James Laughlin

#book #everything #i #i do #orchestra

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#curious #happen #hero #intensely #novel