#reading

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#reading #writing #opinions

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

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

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#blank #blank page #days #down #five

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#readers #reading #family

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#always #different #even #feel #i

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between. ↗

— Roma Downey

#between #endless #far #few #girlfriend