#read

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#closes #comfort #happens #i #me

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#electronic media #encourage #enough #get #good

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul. ↗

— Roger McGough

#because #been #better #children #comedy

We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it. ↗

— Roger McGough

#married #ready #really #too #young

Baking bread is a lot like growing your faith in the Lord, Carrie Louise. You mix together the best ingredients you can find and wait for the mixture to mature, but it's the heat of the oven that makes it something of worth and substance. The same way the tribulations of this world mature a persons faith. ↗

— Dorothy Love

#bread #faith #beauty

Invisible Boy was fun. Everybody else's character, they knew where they were at already as a superhero. But invisible boy's character, you kind of grow up with him within the movie. ↗

— Kel Mitchell

#boy #character #else #everybody #fun

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#books #fair #fight #free #reading

I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty... ↗

— Edward Gorey

#aging #death #old-age #reading #age

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. ↗

— David Low

#critics #defer #feelings #finer #held

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#crime #especially #i #lot #novels