#reading

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. ↗

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#finish #happened #how #i #important

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 think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#been #cookbooks #cooking #could #eat

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

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

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#bed #done #like #often #privately

Too many books. . . too many fairy tales led him to believe that there was something romantic in being a soldier. ↗

— Elizabeth Nelson

#romantic

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#classics #reading #classics

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain. ↗