#reading

Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . . ↗

— Betty Smith

#reading #flowers

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#books #cliche #come #different #diverse

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark. ↗

— Boris Becker

#ark #began #born #chose #few

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble. ↗

— Boris Becker

#any #big #big picture #bubble #coach

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#both #enjoy #enjoy reading #experience #i

It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ↗

— S.I. Hayakawa

#life

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#cooking #dance #eastern #generally #i

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#decided #few #her #i #list

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#book #comes #david #did #every

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#burning #crimes #reading #than #them