#reading

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#brought #down #earth #hear #led

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#comes #derivative #good #good writing #i

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. ↗

— John Ruskin

#books #few #hours #life #none

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#kid #read #reading #stand

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things. ↗

— Billie Piper

#find #friend #i #like #little

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#around #changed #clubs #coffee #finish

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#age #books #changed #children #doing

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

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