#reading

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. ↗

— Richard Powers

#i #journal #keep #past #quotes

Reading is the last act of secular prayer. ↗

— Richard Powers

#last #prayer #reading #secular

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#books #fully #gets #information #kind

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#garbage #immoral #newspaper #people #reading

Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#random #seriously-i-m-kidding #worth-reading #funny

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#been #going #i #looking #opportunities

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#anything #considerable #deceased #dies #first

I just have never got into reading. ↗

— Kid Rock

#i #into #just #never #reading

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. ↗

— James Rollins

#both #fiction #i #inspiration #inspired