#reading

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#give #gratifying #i #i love #love

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#cold #fiery #fire #i #keep

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#give #interested #kids #reading #students

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#afternoon #because #exercise #health #i

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. ↗

— Frank Crane

#reading #sort #spend #stuff #time

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#days #discussing #i #i have learned #learned

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

#audience #gestural #much #poem #precise

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#either #forgotten #reading #something #soon

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself. ↗

— Missy Franklin

#i #like #myself #reading #tv

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#beginning #better #book #enjoy #enjoy reading