#reading

Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests. ↗

— Lawrence Kutner

#entertaining #guests #light #lot #needs

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing. ↗

— John Sladek

#influence #moment #reading #seems #whatever

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#could #different #entirely #had #happened

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#citizen #day #depression #every #every day

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do. ↗

— Rihanna

#being #dress #enjoy #figure #i

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#man #reading #ready #woman #writing

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. ↗

— Richard Hughes

#barbarity #bit #humanity #into #novels

A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#change

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents. ↗

— Sven Birkerts

#reading-habits #age

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#reading #self-discovery #youth #life