#reading

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. ↗

— François Truffaut

#books-reading #film #life #music #art

I don't like when people say 'I can't believe I wasted the whole day reading.' Diving into another world to free your mind is hardly a waste. ↗

— Chris Stocking

#inspirational #reading #inspirational

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#reading #words #art

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. ↗

— Bill Murray

#back #because #books #brought #damn

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

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#benefit #did #i #i do #just

Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s. ↗

— Fred Savage

#been #classics #directors #everything #forget

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#encryption #government #prevent #reading #sister