#read

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#america #code #doubt #god #hell

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#day #decided #doing #effort #fiction

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#fun #i #mysteries #never #probably

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#alarm #any #chapters #condition #end

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#appreciate #bad #bad time #book #books

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

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow. ↗

— William Safire

#columnists #drawn #eager #follow #grasp

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#doing #either #getting #go #i