#reading

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#bachelor #english #formal #had #i

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#books #children #floor #got #i

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool. ↗

— Fred Durst

#cool #god #kid #life #like

I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music. ↗

— Brian Christian

#reading #design

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned. ↗

— Christian Marotti

#books #inspirational #reading #inspirational

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#like #spreading #starbucks

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. ↗

— David Brainerd

#divine #employed #fill #hands #heart

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different. ↗

— Matthew Bright

#different #done #dressed #had #herman

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#bells and whistles #book #engage #intent #interactive

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do. ↗

— Corey Feldman

#doing #gun #hired #much #off