#read

What kind of life can you have in a house without books? ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#boredom #dullness #inspiration #life #necessity

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#reading #inspirational

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#books #cliche #come #different #diverse

To be lost is to be loved ↗

— Aaron Ozee

#aaron-ozee #goodreads #ozee #www-goodreads-com #love

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#deeply #duty #holy #holy scriptures #interest

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. ↗

— John Green

#simile #john-green

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#day #only #only time #own #read

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#commerce #depends #diffusion #education #foreign

Plans make dreams reality. ↗

— Susan Pace-Koch

#children #cowboys #dinosaurs #kids #kittens

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever. ↗

— Eric Bana

#going #good #good job #good project #hit