#reading

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#another #busily #day #dictation #geography

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#good #history #makes #peace #poor

Easy reading is damn hard writing. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#easy #easy reading #hard #reading #writing

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#awoke #book #boredom #dreamed #dull

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#characters #chinese #could #did #get

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#anyone #i #i am #imagine #keep

There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den. ↗

— Morris Hite

#den #kitchen #local #man #national

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#likely #majority #new #now #readers

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#morality #reading #writing #beauty