#reading

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ↗

— Jack Dee

#bible #cling #closer #commentaries #contented

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#also #bad #even #i #into

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#centuries #conversation #finest #good #like

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead. ↗

— Vince Vaughn

#book #fountainhead #i #last #life

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#best way #children #distresses #insist #lives

Time held no meaning as my mind darted in and out of memories. Past and present collided to create a full-sensory collage out of my life: playing hide-n-seek with my best friends Luke—who always cheated by walking through walls when he was about to be caught—and Lucy; Mr. Caldrin critiquing my sketches and offering ideas to make them more realistic; targets changing faces, blending into the same person, their thoughts rippling through my mind like waves. Through it all, a demon stalked me from the shadows of my memories, never quite showing its face, but crouching, waiting. And then I dreamed.... ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#poetic-prose #change

حينما تترقب خلف ستار الخوف عودتهم ! وحينما تعتقد بأن أعاصير الحياة عصفت بهم كما عصفت بك عند رحيلهم .. وحينما تعتقد بأنهم مازالوا هناك على رصيف الذكرى يقفون ، ينتظرون طيف أقدامك ! يترقبون مجيئك ويعتصرون ألماً على فراقك ..! كما تفعل أنت الآن ، وكما فعلت منذ زمن عندها تكون ياعزيزي أقرب إلى الجنون ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#except #first #i #just #makes

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting. ↗

— Joan Didion

#aim #always #course #how #i

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. ↗

— John Barton

#conversation #entered #inspired #into #other