#reading

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#africa #always #attracted #bottom #grew

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#always #been #book #buying #even

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#cookies #disks #great #greatest #habits

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#able #distinguish #population #produced #read

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. ↗

— Bob Ney

#blind #braille #brings #code #created

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in. ↗

— Jason Marsden

#certain #distracted #easily #extremely #grab

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison ↗

— Sean Liburd

#reading #toni-morrison #writing-life #life

A book worth reading is worth buying. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buying #reading #worth #worth reading

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#bible #clergymen #deeply #effort #everywhere