#reading

Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too. It's a book which, in the reading of it, takes me back to editions that I've had and lost, with various illustrators' work in them. It brings back moments sitting reading it with my mother. It brings back my first contact with the Disney cartoon. It brings back standing in the play-yard when I was a kid, when the wind was really blowing, and closing my eyes, spreading my arms and pretending I could fly. It brings back childhood dreams of flying. It brings back the first encounter I ever had with an invented world... Never Never Land was really the first journey I took to an invented world which I believed in wholly and completely. I remember the immense solidarity that I felt with the Lost Boys, with Peter, with the Indians - how much I wanted to be a Red Indian - how much the saving of Tiger Lily meant to me as a kid, how much I wanted to one day wake up and save an Indian squaw from drowning. ↗

— Clive Barker

#childhood #inspiration #reading #dreams

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time. ↗

— Tom Felton

#doing #i #old #reading #seen

For people who are readers, reading is important to them. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#people #readers #reading #them #who

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#art

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations. ↗

— Mos Def

#art #cheering #collect #dormant #functional

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#come #criticism #even #fall #love

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool. ↗

— Fred Durst

#cool #god #kid #life #like

Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #candidate #checked #college

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout. ↗

— Jo Brand

#bit #crying #drinking #feeling #honest