#reading

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#exchange #i #india #invincible #love

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#alone #also #away #country #day

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#i #interested #literary #loved #many

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it. ↗

— John Goodman

#back #come #couple #every #expressions

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#empire #evil #evil empire #exist #life

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#count #create #diverse #i #julian

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. ↗

— Amy Grant

#bible #had #home #i #lot

I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#begin #believe #between #breakfast #clock

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. ↗

— John Green

#book #books #collaboration #every #i

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever