#reading

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#like #makes #off #reading #reviews

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. ↗

— Mark Twain

#criticism #jerk #reading #writing #want

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

#apparent #been #complete #completely #disturbance

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#citizen #english #language #official #our

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#important stuff #kid #reading #really #stuff

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#greatest #half #library #make #man

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#big thing #books #newspapers #out #reading

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#called #does #los #los angeles #outfit

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#after #books #did #died #doing

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#curiosity #history #intellectual #intellectual curiosity #love