#reading

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea. ↗

— Yann Martel

#books #brilliant #center #club #event

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#down #i #intend #laid #laughter

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#good #i #just #make #me

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#becomes #cannot #control #hearing #hearing aids

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#book #books #collaborating #embarrassment #i

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear. ↗

— Brian May

#between #each #fresh #gig #giving

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. ↗

— John McCarthy

#being #book #convinced #intellectual #likely

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#feel #i #interiors #knitting #living

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#intensely #literature #live #more #ourselves

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#anyone #anyway #assumption #attitudes #balance