#reading

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page. ↗

— Guy Picciotto

#mind #onstage #page #reading #same

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#reading #age

By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and therefore writing—adventure stories. This was before I’d read Isak Dinesen and Mikhail Bulgakov, before Ernest Hemingway and T. Coraghessan Boyle, before I’d read something and really felt it, when writing was still just a compulsion, and my teen-age brain was only bordering on sentience. I filled pages of white space with swashbuckling, rapier-wielding, sidekick-sacrificing, dragon-baiting romance. (from 'High-School Confidential' in the The New Yorker.) ↗

— Téa Obreht

#writing #age

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#correct #incorrectly #make #men #mistake

To be the best, you have to be willing to do what nobody does. And today, if nobody reads and nobody works hard, then you also have to give up reading and become lethargic to be successful. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #lethargic #reading #success #change

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. ↗

— William Godwin

#education #him #his #into #lead

Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. There's nothing like a shovelful of dirt to encourage literacy. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#reading #home

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#document #exciting #feel #know #legal

Also there's two sides of it, I mean, a band like us, at our level and the way we have to promote ourselves and usually radio just completely turns their back on us, at the same time I think Mp3s help promote us somewhat, spreading the word about the album and stuff. ↗

— Kenny Hickey

#album #also #back #band #completely

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom. ↗

— Reese Hoffa

#believe #could #first #found #got